Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of S. Albin d'Anger, begs the intercession of S. William the Abbot, client of the Norman King of Sicily, for Norman, Sharon, and their family.

Today's reflection is two-part; before the Rosary we prepare for Lent with a brief discussion of our Lenten disciplines and the use of Lent and after the Rosary turn to S. John of the Cross and what his Dark Night of the Soul reveals to us about the experience of the Ascension in our spiritual life.