Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the second Wednesday of Advent, is on the Crown of Thorns and what it represents in our spiritual lives, the dangers posed to us by utopian ideologies and world- and man-centered religiosity, and the place we need to begin building the Kingdom of Heaven. Today's prayer is for an anonymous listener and the woman he is now no longer courting, and today's intercession is asked of St. Augustine of Hippo.