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.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Peter Fourier and the second Thursday in Advent, is on the way of the Cross and the necessity of the Divine Will animating us and acting within us to accompany Christ to Calvary for our own inward Crucifixion. Today's prayer intention is for a recently converted friend of CastIronLocust. Today's intercession is asked of St. Thomas Becket.

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.

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.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Nicholas and the second Monday of Advent, is about the Agony in the Garden and the lessons it contains for us about our humanity and human frailty, and how Christ aids us in overcoming ourselves. Today's prayer intention is for S. & T. and the unnamed child who has passed. Today's intercession is asked of St. Elizabeth the mother of the Baptist.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Francis Xavier and the First Friday in Advent (and the month), is about the finding of Jesus in the Temple, what inward understanding Mary and Joseph had that the Scribes lacked, and why the Finding of the Child Jesus is focused on His divinity much more than His humanity. Today's prayer intention is for D.W. today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Worker.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Bibiana and the first Thursday in Advent, is about the central figures of the Presentation - Our Lord, His mother, and the prophet and prophetess Ss. Simeon and Anna, and the difference between knowing God and knowing God's Law. Today's prayer intention is for S.B. and today's intercession is asked of St. Christopher.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Eligius and the first Wednesday of Advent, is on the Nativity, the interior life of St. Joseph, and the way in which Christ is with us and before us every moment of every day, presenting us with opportunities to live as Christians. Today's prayer intention is from Harambeson for the conversion of the leaders of the NJP. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Longinus and Dismas.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Andrew and the first Tuesday of Advent, is on the Visitation, how our Blessed Mother exemplifies Christian life, and what the leaping of St. John the Baptist teaches us about our own souls' response to Christ when he knocks on our doors. Today's prayer intention is for an anonymous youth who has lost the faith. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Ignatius of Loyola and Paul of Tarsus. Today's Requiem is for Holly and Dominique.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Saturninus and the first Monday in Advent, we begin a new series on the fifteen Mysteries of the Holy Rosary and what they teach us about how we prepare ourselves for Christmas and the Second Coming. The Annunciation demonstrates the perfection of the interior life of Our Lady, and how necessary a life of inward perfection is to any outward action. Today's prayer intention is for Ed, a friend of listener D.W. Today's intercession is asked of St. Augustine of Hippo.