Today's Daily Decade, for Spy Wednesday, begs intercession once again on behalf of VAL's father, for his perfect healing and full recovery; we ask the intercession of S. Elizabeth of Hungary, famous in her lifetime as one who never refused to aid the sick.

Today's reflection is on the most common and basic of the seven cardinal or Deadly sins, namely gluttony and lust, what they have in common, why the Fathers and Doctors of the Church typically spoke of them in one breath and recommended for them similar penances.