diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ourdailybread.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ourdailybread.py
index f1241da408..6987ab2325 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ourdailybread.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ourdailybread.py
@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class OurDailyBread(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title                 = 'Our Daily Bread'
-    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
+    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic and Sujata Raman'
     description           = 'Religion'
     oldest_article        = 15
     language = 'en'
+    lang = 'en'
 
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     no_stylesheets        = True
@@ -21,16 +22,43 @@ class OurDailyBread(BasicNewsRecipe):
     category              = 'religion'
     encoding              = 'utf-8'
     extra_css             = ' #devoTitle{font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold} '
-    
-    conversion_options = {  
+
+    conversion_options = {
                              'comments'    : description
                             ,'tags'        : category
                             ,'language'    : 'en'
                          }
-                         
+
     keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['altbg','text']})]
 
+    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['ctl00_cphPrimary_pnlBookCover']}),
+                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['devotionalLinks']})
+                   ]
+    extra_css = '''
+                .text{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;}
+                .devotionalTitle{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:large; font-weight: bold;}
+                .devotionalDate{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:xx-small;}
+                .devotionalVerse{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:xx-small; }
+                '''
+
     feeds          = [(u'Our Daily Bread', u'http://www.rbc.org/rss.ashx?id=50398')]
 
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        soup.html['xml:lang'] = self.lang
+        soup.html['lang']     = self.lang
+        mtag = '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=' + self.encoding + '">'
+        soup.head.insert(0,mtag)
+
         return self.adeify_images(soup)
+
+    def get_cover_url(self):
+
+        href =  'http://www.rbc.org/index.aspx'
+
+        soup = self.index_to_soup(href)
+        a = soup.find('a',attrs={'id':'ctl00_hlTodaysDevotionalImage'})
+
+        if a :
+           cover_url = a.img['src']
+
+        return cover_url