Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Melchiades and second Friday of Advent, is about the Crucifixion and the lessons it contains to inform our entire way of life as Christians, why it is and must be central to our Faith, and the stark masculinity of Christ on the Cross. Today's prayer intention is for S.B. and his wife. Today's intercession is asked of St. Thérèse of Lisieux.