Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Ursula and her companions, offers prayers for Keigh, Nordisk Amerikaner, and Robert, all of whom are suffering with back injuries incurred through heavy activity. Today's prayer is the prayer for the sick, for their speedy and perfect healing. Today's reflection is on the Crown of Thorns, and what it reflects in Pilate and in the mob who remained unmoved at the sight of the beaten, humiliated Christ. We may regard Christ crowned with thorns with pity in the moment, but do we take pity on Him in our lives by lessening the sins with which He is burdened? 

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Peter Alcantara, offers prayers for South Africans, who have been deprived of electricity by a major substation failure, leaving thousands without working security systems at their homes and therefore at the mercy of the murderous gangs that form part of every day life in South African cities. We beg the intercession of the Blessed Mother and her special protection over the oppressed minority of South Africa, especially the Catholic minority. Today's reflection is on the descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost and the way God fulfilled His Promise, which He made when He created us, by descending upon His Church. 

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Sacratissimum Cor Jesu, miserere nobis!), offers prayers for Sparky and his wife and their unborn child. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard, patron of childbirth and pregnancy. Today's reflection is likewise on babies - particularly on the baby Jesus, and what message it sends to us that God elected to come to man as an infant. The supreme hope, and the theological Hope, that the Nativity represents gives us a reflection both on God's gift to us and the way we draw out our Created Nature from our fallen state.

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Wilfred of England and the Commemoration of Our Lady of the Pillar, in which Our Lady appeared to St. James in his efforts to convert Hispania, offers prayers for Ephraim's parish, which is confronting Parish "listening sessions" this past and this coming Saturdays. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph and St. Gregory the Great for the protection and encouragement of the entire parish. Today's reflection considers the Ascension as a prefiguring of the Second Coming and what that should mean for us. 

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Francis Borgia, offers prayers on behalf of Rene, who struggles with anxiety. Apologies to Rene, when listener Stoše submitted the request he didn't specify if Rene was a man or woman, but the spelling is the French masculine, so I made an assumption. We beg the intercession of S. Stephen Protomartyr for confidence and serenity in the face of adversity. Today's reflection considers the visitation with St. Elizabeth, and how the Visitation, like the Scourging and the Ascension, is a going-out from oneself, as the Blessed Mother draws near to God through a work of charity, that is, a manifestation of caritas, the Love of God. 

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Placid and his Companions, offers prayers for K, for the discernment of God's will and motivation to act upon it. We beg the intercession of St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose violent conversion experience offers us all a model for interior conversion and living each day To the Greater Glory of God. Today's Reflection is on the four resurrections in Scripture, the three resurrections we experience in our day to day life as Christians, and how they relate to that One Resurrection which made our Salvation manifest. 

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, offers prayers for Laura for obedience to and discernment of the Will of God in her life. We beg the intercession of the 11 Apostles who confessed the Faith in obedience to God's revealed desires for them. Today we reflect on the love we confess to God when we contemplate His Glories and His Designs in the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, and the model of sainthood Our Blessed Mother manifests even before she is asked to be the Mother of God by Archangel Gabriel.