Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John Gualbert, is about how we judge and discern, and why it is so central to our Faith to judge and judge rightly if we wish to stand before the Righteous Judge with humility and confidence. Today's intention is for a group of young men going on retreat this week, and today's intercession is asked of St. Christopher the patron of travellers.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Maria Goretti, is about what St. Paul means when he says to put on the "whole armour of God", and why Christianity must be a religion of perfection and maximalism, setting it apart from all the man-made religions of the world. Today's prayer intention is for G. and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Monica and Augustine.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Elizabeth of Portugal, is on the role played by the Blessed Mother in providing Christians with weapons in our spiritual war with the devil and the world, especially those powerful means she gives us in our worst crises, and how this should ward off despair for us. Today's prayer intention is for Iseult and her new baby, and today's intercession is asked of St. Gerard.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, is on discerning our faults and their nature to improve upon them, thus fulfilling the first and most essential challenge of the Faith, namely to take up our crosses and follow Christ. Today's prayer intention is for Josh, and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Worker.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Thomas More, is about big refreshed by Christ by keeping Him before our minds, and how fitting preparation for Sundays will help us avoid both lukewarmness and immodesty, and make our daily burdens easier to bear. Today's prayer intention is for those who are heavy burdened of heart and mind, and today's intercession is asked of our Blessed Mother.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord, is on avoiding the utopian fantasies that lead us into worldliness and away from God, and fighting the tempting belief that we can make a perfect world, which is always the goal of the enemies of God among men. Today's prayer intention is for E., who is being obliged by his family to "get the jab", and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Oliver Plunkett and Thomas Becket.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Paul the Apostle, is on the way we tend to seek numbing medicines in the world for the sickness of soul we suffer from rather than the healing cure that comes from God alone. Today's prayer intention is for the Pope and his conversion of heart, and today's intercession is asked of all the Pope-Saints of the Church Triumphant.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, is about why we feel distant from God and how to confront that feeling of distance, how to overcome it and return to a state of nearness to Him, and how we should understand God's desire that we not be far from Him either in this life or in eternity. Today's prayer intention is for those in doubt or uncertainty in their religious life, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Peter and Paul, whose Feast it is.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Vigil of the Apostles Peter & Paul, is on the Holy Rosary and contemplative prayer, the place it occupies in our Faith and the place it should occupy in our lives. Today's prayer intention is for the audience of the Daily Decade and the propagation of the Holy Rosary, and today's intercession is asked of Mary, the Most Blessed Mother of God.

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, is on our ever-present desire for control over our lives and our environment, and how this drive, which is so encouraged by our society, is essentially contrary to the virtue of Faith. Today's prayer intention is for D. and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph.