Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen, offers a Requiem for Deb Simpson, who passed after a long battle with Cancer. Today's reflection is on the Scourging at the Pillar, and why the physicality of the Passion was necessary and reflects the necessity of physicality and the material world in our own spiritual lives, because it alone enables us to live the Faith actively.

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, offers prayers for Bethany and for all the victims of the sin of divorce, husbands, wives, and children. We beg the intercession of two model wives, Ss. Monica of Thagaste and Margaret of Scotland, and of St. Joseph, patron of husbands, fathers, and strong families. Today's reflection deals with the perception of God's absence, especially in the Ascension itself, where Christ feels the need to remind us that He is with us "always, even until the consummation of the world". 

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, offers prayers for Timothy and his conversion to the Catholic Faith. We beg the intercession of St. Ignatius of Loyola, great proselytizer of the Faith and himself a convert from the World. Today's reflection discusses the many meetings that take place at the visitation - of Old and New Testament, Maid and Matron, a new Eve and a new Sarah, the Interior and Active life - and what we derive from the Visitation of these two which must take place in our souls to live the life of Grace intended for us.

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, offers prayers for Andrew and Bethany, that the light of Christ might enter and illumine their lives. We ask the intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux to this end, to grant them the simple love for Christ that she had. Today's reflection is on the Resurrection as the source of our life and our faith, and why cultivating a life of devotion is so important for any kind of social action. No genuine action, social, political, or cultural is possible without first having an interior life, the well of living water springing up from inside us. 

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord, offers prayers for the perfect healing of Michael, the young son of listener Kevin, who has a fever and cough, and for the well-being of his parents. Today's sickness prayer is drawn from the closing prayers of Extreme Unction, and we likewise beg the intercession of St. Blaise, patron of those suffering afflictions of the throat. Today's reflection is on the Crucifixion and its centrality not only to the doctrine of our Faith, but to our day-to-day lives as Christians, and how it sets Christianity apart from all other religious experiments and imaginings in how it confronts the central concern of our existence: suffering and death.