Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy, is a continuation of yesterday's discussion of mortification, and how it prepared us to join ourselves to Christ and His Sacrifice. Today's prayer intention is for W.R.'s friend struggling with family issues. Today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Foster-father of Our Lord.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Linus, is on mortification and self-denial, and why it benefits our entire selves to make sacrifices in our lives and of ourselves, along with some practical examples of mortifications to our benefit. Today's prayer intention is for S.B. and his grandmother. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Helen the Dowager Empress, Olga of Kiev, and Margaret of Scotland.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Thomas of Villanova, is on death and the reminders it carries with it for us whenever we experience its entry into our lives, and how we ought to approach the deaths of those we love and our own death. Today's prayer intention is for G.H. and his Aunt. Today we prayed a Requiem Aeternam, so no saints were invoked.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Matthew the Evangelist, is about why Christianity is a communal and community religion, and why we cannot be Christians by ourselves, but must keep real and tangible society with other Christians to be what God intended us to be. Today's prayer intention is for Tango and his friend Angelique. Today's intercession is asked of the Seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Eustace and his Companions, is on why our religion cannot be merely privately held convictions or personal attachments, that there is in fact no such thing as "leave me be" Christianity because there really is no such thing as a Christian who exists apart from his responsibilities and relationships: we are therefore called to be public in our Christianity, in imitation of all the Saints. Today's prayer intention is for W.S. and his grandmother. Today we prayed the Requiem Aeternam, so no invocation of a saint was made.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Francis' Stigmata, is on the Passion, and particularly the lessons of the Stations and the characters of the people Christ meets on His way to the Cross, how they model the way all people for all time will relate to His Sacrifice. Today's prayer intention is for P.H. and his wife. Today's intercession is asked of St. Monica of Thagaste.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Cornelius & Cyprian, is about the way the Devil exploits our desire to be good Christians and turns our fanaticism for God against us, seeking our own will instead of His, but deceived into thinking it is His Will. Today's prayer intention is for D.W. and his mother, and today's intercession is asked of St. Bernardine of Sienna.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady, is about courage and cowardice, how they relate to our innate Pride and sinfulness, and what it takes to stare down Death and the Devil in our spiritual combat. Today's prayer intention is for S.B. Today's intercession is asked of St. Benedict.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Most Holy Cross, is about the way we must live as Christians, and why the Cross draws us all to itself as both the ultimate condescension on the part of God and the perfect means of our reaching up to Him. Today's prayer intention is for L.L. Today's intercession is asked of the Holy Family, St. Joseph, the Blessed Mother, and Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Marcellinus of Carthage, is on labour, and why depriving a worker of his just wage is a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance, but also how all of us are labouring for our just wage, that of death if we labour in Sin or that of everlasting life if we offer our works to God. Today's prayer intention is for D. Today's intercession is asked of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.