Today's Daily Decade, for the Wednesday after Epiphany, offers prayers for an anonymous friend whose father, a life-long atheist, is in danger of death. We ask the intercession of Ss. Monica, Helen, and Olga, all of whom effected the conversion of their sons to have compassion on this wayward son and inspire him to return to the altar of his God, "the joy of his youth". Today's reflection focuses on God's Mercy, and the contrast between the Mercy of God which He in His infinite Love tempers with Justice, and the justice of man which he in his weakness he sometimes tempers with mercy.