For latest Catholic News, please visit us at https://www.wiredcatholic.com This podcast contains today's mass readings from the US Catholic Conference of Bishops. The official USCCB podcast feed contains many future podcasts which requires you to scroll through a month's worth of podcasts to today's reading only. This feed only downloads the podcast of the day so today's reading will appear on top of the list. The script is based on the user's timezone so it will work globally. Please note that the USCCB podcasts are downloaded directly from the USCCB website - this feed's only purpose is ease of use and better organization in your podcast player while minimizing bandwidth by downloading only one podcast at a time. As a bonus, the show notes display the full bio of the Saint of the Day from CNA and provides a link to the full text of the readings.
If you get the wrong day's podcast you can unsubscribe from this podcast and subscribe to one of the following based on whether you are the same day, or one day ahead or one day behind the timezone of the podcast server (based in United States):
Next Day : https://www.wiredcatholic.com/todaysmassreadings+1.xml
Same Day : https://www.wiredcatholic.com/todaysmassreadings+0.xml
Previous Day: https://www.wiredcatholic.com/todaysmassreadings-1.xml
Regular Autodetect Feed: https://www.wiredcatholic.com/todaysmassreadings.xml
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Change Log/Feedback to Comments and Reviews:
2025-12-31 Script broke in November requiring rewrite to python. Sorry to all the users out there! But it's back up and running now. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
2025-03-18 Fixed Saint of the Day chapter picture. Yes I know it's been broken way too long. This should be a more durable fix.
2023-08-11 Some refactoring. Added etag header. Add Saint Picture as episode picture, notes.
2023-07-20 Fixed Saint of the Day chapter picture.
2023-03-02 Fixed the revised date format which occurred on 3/1/23 for the Mp3 which prevented downloading the link.
2023-02-04 Fixed the revised date format to the mp3 name which occurred on Feb 1. 2023 breaking the feed and resulting in 3-4 days of lost mass podcasts. Please note that have no way of responding to the reviews other than this changelog. I use the feed daily so I will usually know when it breaks but it takes me a couple of days to find the time to fix it. Keep in mind I do this in my spare time. It takes me several hours to fix these bugs. When this happens, until it is fixed please visit the USCCB site directly to get the mass podcast online at https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading. Or if you use Podcast Addict you can click transcript button from any previously working episode and that will open your browser to the correct USCCB page. Then click the forward arrow to advance to the cuurent day. This feed will usually be fixed within a couple of days.
2022-12-10 Fixed chapter Saint of Day Pics. Fixed geo dating.
2022-12-07 Fixed broken Saint of the day url and broken feed.
2022-02-05 Improved Image Getting for chapters. Deleted CNA Code.
2022-01-30 Fixed Saint Picture of Day so fallback is whats on Franciscan page
2022-01-28 Fixed some XML validation issues
2021-11-13 Fixed some XML/itunes validation issues
2021-11-05 Added Saint of the Day Picture for Podcast 2.0 as players: podcast: chapter, added podcast:transcript linked to reading
2021-04-11 Fixed typos and Saint of Day link
2021-04-08 - Fixed timezone error catching; fixed saint of the day error, added alternative saint of the day link (Franciscan media).
9-16-20 - Fixed Dead MP3 Links Broken By USCCB Website Rewrite, Prior Episodes Restarted as of 9-16-20 ]
8-12-20 - Added prior episodes per listener request]
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