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The BreadCast

Daily Exposition of the Readings for Catholic Mass...

as well as Prayers to the Saints on the General Roman Calendar (for the U.S.).  

From the books Our Daily Bread and Prayers to the Saints by James H. Kurt - both with imprimatur.

Aug 29, 2020

 (Jer.20:7-9;   Ps.63:2-6,8-9;   Rom.12:1-2;   Mt.16:21-27)

 

“Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,

holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.”

 

Paul says the same as Jesus when the Lord calls us to “take up [our] cross,” to lose our lives for His sake.  And as Paul instructs the Romans: “Do not...


Aug 25, 2020

(2Thes.3:6-10,16-18;   Ps.128:1-2,4-5;   Mt.23:27-32) 

“You shall eat the fruit of your handiwork.”

“Anyone who would not work should not eat” was the rule laid down by Paul among the Thessalonians.  A man must earn his bread.  And as on earth, so in heaven.  For who shall come to the fruits of the kingdom if...


Aug 22, 2020

 (Is.22:19-23;   Ps.138:1-3,6,8;   Rom.11:33-36;   Mt.16:13-20)

 

“I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.

Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;

and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

 

Thus the Lord grants principal authority in His Church to His rock, Peter.  Thus He...


Aug 16, 2020

(Ez.24:15-24;   Dt.32:18-21;   Mt.19:16-22) 

“Son of man, by a sudden blow

I am taking away from you the delight of your eyes,

but do not mourn or weep or shed any tears.”

A striking similarity there is between our first reading and our gospel: as Ezekial’s wife dies, and so his most valuable treasure is taken...


Aug 15, 2020

 (Is.56:1,6-7;   Ps.67:2-3,5-6,8;   Rom.11:13-15,29-32;   Mt.15:21-28)

 

“God delivered all to disobedience,

that He might have mercy upon all.”

 

(In love let me speak, O Lord.) 

Brothers and sisters, the Lord has said, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”  Yet our scholars and...