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Feed your soul with the Bread of Life. Christus Dominus Daily Bread offers daily Scripture readings, prayer, and reflection to nourish your spirit and strengthen your walk with Christ. Whether you seek peace, strength, or a deeper encounter with God, each episode invites you into sacred stillness centered on His Word. New episodes daily. Brought to you by Christus Dominus Studios.

  1. The Two Adams | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 22, 2026

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    The Two Adams | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 22, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | First Sunday of Lent | February 22, 2026 Two men. Two tests. Everything hangs on what they do next. The first man stands in paradise. Every tree is beautiful. He walks with God. There is only one boundary in the entire world: do not eat from that tree. A serpent reframes God's generosity as restriction. He reaches for the fruit. Death crashes into a world that had never known it. The second man stands in wilderness. Forty days without food. Satan offers bread, spectacle, kingdoms. He refuses everything. And angels come to minister to the One who would not break. Paul puts it starkly: through one man sin entered, through sin death. But the free gift is not like the trespass. Grace does not simply reverse the damage. It overwhelms it. Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. This Lent, we enter our own wilderness. Not to punish ourselves but to discover what Jesus proved: the Father is enough. 📖 Readings First Reading: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 Second Reading: Romans 5: 12-19 Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - Genesis 2:7-9;3:1-7 01:47 Psalm Response - Psalm 51 06:23 Reading II - Romans 5: 12-19 07:54 Gospel - Matthew 4:1-11 09:16 Reflection - The Two Adams 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #Lent #FirstSundayOfLent #CatholicDailyReadings #AdamAndChrist #TemptationOfJesus #Genesis3 #Romans5 #Matthew4 #SecondAdam #GraceAbounds #CatholicFaith

    16 min
  2. Repairer of the Breach | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 21, 2026

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    Repairer of the Breach | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 21, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Saturday after Ash Wednesday | February 21, 2026 There is a name waiting for you. Not the name your parents gave you, not the names the world has called you. This is the name God wants to speak over your life: Repairer of the Breach. Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. A breach is a gap in a wall, a break in a relationship, a rupture in what was meant to be whole. Breaches are everywhere once you start looking. The estranged family member. The shattered friendship. The community torn apart by blame. God looks at all this brokenness and does not send demolition crews. He sends repairers. Isaiah reveals what happens when we get fasting right: Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations. Inner transformation leads to outer rebuilding. Repaired relationships create repaired communities. Then comes Levi. A tax collector, a traitor to his own people, excommunicated and despised. Jesus looks at him and says two words: Follow me. No lecture, no waiting period, no conditions. And Levi throws a banquet with all his sinner friends, scandalizing the religious establishment. Jesus is the true Repairer of the Breach. He walks into the wreckage. He eats with the people everyone else has written off. He calls traitors to become apostles. And now he calls you to do the same. 📖 Readings First Reading: Isaiah 58:9b-14 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 Gospel: Luke 5: 27-32 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - Isaiah 58:9b-14 01:30 Psalm Response - Psalm 86 05:22 Gospel - Luke 5: 27-32 06:08 Reflection - Repairer of the Breach 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #Lent #CatholicDailyReadings #RepairerOfTheBreach #Isaiah58 #Psalm86 #CallingOfLevi #TaxCollector #JesusAndSinners #RestoreTheRuins #CatholicFaith

    12 min
  3. The Fast God Wants | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 20, 2026

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    The Fast God Wants | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 20, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Friday after Ash Wednesday | February 20, 2026 You have been fasting for two days now. You are doing the thing. You are showing up for Lent. And here comes Isaiah to ruin everything. The people in his day fasted too. They bowed their heads like a reed. They spread out sackcloth and ashes. And they were furious that God did not seem to notice. God's response is devastating. He does not answer their complaint. He exposes their hearts. On the very day you fast, you pursue your own interests. On the very day you humble yourself, you oppress your workers. Your fasting is a performance that changes nothing about how you actually live. Isaiah redefines fasting. The fast God chooses is not primarily about what you put in your mouth. It is about what comes out of your life. Loose the bonds of injustice. Share your bread with the hungry. Do not hide from your own flesh and blood. Then Jesus calls himself the bridegroom. Throughout the Old Testament, God was the faithful husband and Israel the unfaithful wife. Jesus is claiming to be the divine husband. The wedding has arrived. But the bridegroom will be taken away, and then we will fast. Christian fasting is homesickness for heaven. It is a bride longing for her groom. And that longing changes how we treat everyone around us. 📖 Readings First Reading: Isaiah 58:1-9a Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19 Gospel: Matthew 9: 14-15 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - Isaiah 58:1-9a 02:01 Psalm Response - Psalm 51 06:12 Gospel - Matthew 9: 14-15 06:37 Reflection - The Fast God Wants 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #Lent #CatholicDailyReadings #Fasting #Isaiah58 #Psalm51 #Bridegroom #FirstFridayOfLent #TrueFasting #LooseTheChains #CatholicFaith

    15 min
  4. Choose Life | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 19, 2026

    3D AGO

    Choose Life | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 19, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Thursday after Ash Wednesday | February 19, 2026 Every morning you wake up and make the same choice again. You probably do not notice it, but underneath all the automation of your routine, a direction is being set and a path is being walked. Moses strips away all the complexity: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life. Two options. Two outcomes. And then this stunning phrase: For he is your life. God is not a means to an end. God himself is the destination, the prize, the point. The psalm gives us the image: a tree planted by streams of water versus chaff that the wind drives away. Rooted and fruitful, or weightless and blown in whatever direction the wind moves. Jesus sharpens it further: If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross DAILY. Not once at a retreat. Daily. And whoever tries to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for his sake will save it. What profit is there to gain the whole world yet lose yourself? 📖 Readings First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 Gospel: Luke 9: 22-25 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - Deuteronomy 30:15-20 01:27 Psalm Response - Psalm 1 05:51 Gospel - Luke 9: 22-25 06:32 Reflection - Choose Life 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #Lent #CatholicDailyReadings #ChooseLife #TakeUpYourCross #Deuteronomy30 #Psalm1 #Luke9 #LoseToSave #DailyCross #CatholicFaith

    11 min
  5. You Are Dust | Ash Wednesday Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 18, 2026

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    You Are Dust | Ash Wednesday Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 18, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Ash Wednesday | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 18, 2026 Today a stranger will draw a cross on your forehead with the ashes of dead palms and speak the most terrifying words you will hear all year: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." We spend most of our lives running from this truth. We build careers, accumulate possessions, and construct legacies because somewhere deep down we believe that if we matter enough to enough people, we can outrun the grave. We cannot. The ashes on our foreheads are made from the palms we waved at Jesus last year. Those palms are now burnt remnants. A year from now, so might we be. Joel calls us to rend our hearts, not our garments. Jesus warns against religious performance that plays to human audiences. Paul declares that NOW is the acceptable time, NOW is the day of salvation. And David shows us what real repentance looks like: a broken and contrite heart that God will not despise. Forty days begin today. Who are you when no one is watching? 📖 Readings First Reading: Joel 2: 12-18 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17 Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 5: 20 - 6:2 Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - Joel 2: 12-18 01:23 Psalm Response - Psalm 51 06:04 Reading II - 2 Corinthians 5: 20-6:2 06:42 Gospel - Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 08:10 Reflection - You Are Dust 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #AshWednesday #Lent #CatholicDailyReadings #YouAreDust #RendYourHearts #NowIsTheDay #Repentance #FortyDays #Psalm51 #BeReconciled #CatholicFaith

    14 min
  6. The Hook You Never See | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 17, 2026

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    The Hook You Never See | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 17, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time | February 17, 2026 Nobody plans to destroy their life. The affair doesn't start with a hotel room. It starts with a lingering glance. The addiction doesn't begin at rock bottom. It begins with one drink to take the edge off. James gives us the biology of sin and it's terrifying in its ordinariness: desire conceives, gives birth to sin, and sin when fully grown brings forth death. The fish doesn't see the hook. It sees the bait. The glittering thing that promises satisfaction. And the desire is already in us. We can't blame circumstances, other people, or God. The hook finds purchase because something in us was already hungry for the bait. But James doesn't leave us there. Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow. The bait offers a counterfeit. God offers the substance. Every desire that temptation exploits points to a legitimate need that God designed and wants to fulfill. Meanwhile, the disciples are in a boat worrying about bread while the one who fed five thousand and four thousand is sitting right next to them. Jesus asks: Do you have eyes but fail to see? Ears but fail to hear? Don't you remember? 📖 Readings First Reading: James 1: 12-18 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19 Gospel: Mark 8: 14-21 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - James 1: 12-18 01:14 Psalm Response - Psalm 94 06:15 Gospel - Mark 8: 14-21 07:13 Reflection - The Hook You Never See 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #CatholicDailyReadings #James1 #Temptation #SinAndDeath #FatherOfLights #LeavenOfPharisees #DoYouNotUnderstand #CatholicReflection #OrdinaryTime

    12 min
  7. The Sigh That Reveals Everything | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 16, 2026

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    The Sigh That Reveals Everything | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 16, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time | February 16, 2026 Jesus has fed thousands, healed the deaf, cast out demons, calmed storms. And when the Pharisees demand a sign from heaven? He sighs deeply in his spirit. This is not frustration. This is heartbreak. They want proof on their terms. They want a God who performs on command. They are standing in a sea of miracles and demanding to see a miracle. James has a word for this condition: double-minded. The doubter is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind, unstable in all his ways. Such a person should expect nothing from the Lord. Not because God is unwilling to give. God gives generously, without reproach. But the double-minded person cannot receive because their hands are never truly open. The psalmist shows us the opposite: "It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn your decrees." Here is someone who stopped demanding proof and started walking in faith. The signs have already been given. The question is whether we will receive them. 📖 Readings First Reading: James 1:1-11 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 Gospel: Mark 8: 11-13 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - James 1:1-11 01:29 Psalm Response - Psalm 119 04:41 Gospel - Mark 8: 11-13 05:07 Reflection - The Sigh That Reveals Everything 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #CatholicDailyReadings #James1 #DoubleMinded #FaithNotDoubt #PhariseesSign #TrustGod #CatholicReflection #OrdinaryTime

    10 min
  8. Fire and Water Before You | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 15, 2026

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    Fire and Water Before You | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | February 15, 2026

    Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB. Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time | February 15, 2026 God has placed fire and water before you. Life and death. And whichever you choose will be given to you. Today's readings demolish every excuse we make for our sin while revealing the heart-deep righteousness Jesus came to produce in us. Sirach insists on genuine free will. Paul reveals wisdom hidden from the rulers who crucified the Lord of glory. And Jesus takes the law of Moses to its depths: not just murder but anger, not just adultery but lust, not just false oaths but a lack of integrity that makes oaths necessary. Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees... This is not about trying harder. This is about a completely different kind of righteousness that begins in the heart and only the Spirit can produce. 📖 Readings First Reading: Sirach 15:15-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 Gospel: Matthew 5: 17-37 ⏱️ Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Reading I - Sirach 15:15-20 00:56 Psalm Response - Psalm 119 05:18 Reading II - 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 06:09 Gospel - Matthew 5: 17-37 09:14 Reflection - Fire and Water Before You 🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886 #CatholicDailyReadings #SixthSundayOrdinaryTime #SermonOnTheMount #FireAndWater #FreeWill #FulfillTheLaw #HeartDeepRighteousness #Sirach #Matthew5

    14 min
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Feed your soul with the Bread of Life. Christus Dominus Daily Bread offers daily Scripture readings, prayer, and reflection to nourish your spirit and strengthen your walk with Christ. Whether you seek peace, strength, or a deeper encounter with God, each episode invites you into sacred stillness centered on His Word. New episodes daily. Brought to you by Christus Dominus Studios.

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