Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Ambrose and the second Tuesday of Advent, is about the scourging, and our mystical participation in the Passion, the two great evils - of material excess and of spiritual tepidity - that place us among the persecutors of Christ, and the great virtues - material temperance and spiritual fanaticism - that place us beside Christ. Today's prayer intention is for an anonymous servant of God and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany.