The Daily Decade: Recent Episodes
Mario J. Goretti
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel, offers prayers for Austin and his family, who were in a car wreck on Christmas Eve, and he is currently wheelchair bound. We offer the prayers of the sick for his perfect healing and the care and health of his entire family. Today's reflection draws us near to a bit of mysticism, as we travel through the Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross, and the persons each Word addresses and for whom each is spoken - from the crucifiers of Christ, which we all are in sin, to the repentant thief, whom we become in repentance, to the Blessed Mother and St. John, models for those whom we are called to become as Christians, to Christ Himself as we perfect our Christian lives. May these last two weeks of Lent be opportunity enough for us to discover who we are and where we stand in relation to the Crucified Christ.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Katarina of Sweden, daughter of the famed St. Bridget of Sweden, offers prayers for the nation of Nigeria on behalf of a listener there. We beg the intercession of St. Frumentius [I accidentally said "St. Fulgentius", confusing the Apostle of the Ethiopians with the great hero of Ruspe in modern Tunisia - but the saint I was describing was the first preacher to bring the Faith south of the Sahara], and the many nameless martyr-saints Nigeria has collected over the years, for the total conversion of the country, the defeat of the Saracen who kidnap and corrupt their children, and the purification of the darkened hearts of any and all pagans who continue to exercise power over Christians. Today's reflection considers the Crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the model she provides as a mother to all women as well as the role she plays as Patron Saint of all Christians, pointing the way to the ideal manhood, whose core vocation is authority, and the ideal womanhood, whose core vocation is maternity.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Benedict, offers prayers for the end of Infanticide in the Western world and for God's Justice upon those who facilitate it, aid and abet its proponents, and all of us who tolerate it passively. We beg the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, chiefly responsible as they are for begging mercy for poor sinners. Today's reflection opens with this very subject, the disavowal of responsibility, contrasted with the way in which the Blessed Mother, herself blameless by nature, sought her Son "sorrowing" - sorrowing for His loss, but not bewailing her suffering for her own sake. How often do we ask "why?" when we mean "why me?", instead of asking God to reveal His design so we can better conform ourselves to it?
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Patrick of Ireland, offers prayers for the perfect healing and fully recovery of the father of listener VAL. We offer the Latin prayers for the sick from the Sacrament of Extreme Unction. Today's reflection is on the joy and hope of the Way of the Cross, considering the Saints that were sanctified by their witness and participation in the crucifixion, from St. Longinus who helped to crucify Our Lord to St. Simon of Cyrene who aided Him reluctantly, to St. Veronica who risked her life to give Him comfort.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Zachary I, offers prayers for Melanie, a friend of listener Kevin. We beg the intercession of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, an exemplary woman who faced many kinds of trials and took divers and sundry opportunities to manifest holiness, for the general welfare of Melanie and the grace of God upon her and those responsible for her well-being. Today's reflection continues our theme of divine joy in the midst of human sorrow, the meaning of sorrow, compassion, and pain in our fallen world, and the example of the Assumption to help us pierce the veil of human sorrow to find joy wherever God is glorified. I have to admit I missed a spectacular opportunity to make reference to the icon Joy of All Who Sorrow and examine why Our Lady is given that title by Slavic Christians. Perhaps we'll revisit it in the future!
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Euphrasia, offers prayers for the young lady hosting the Alithea Xeniplothike channel on Telegram, that she might discern her vocation clearly and faithfully. We beg the intercession of Ss. Benedict and Scholastica, two great monastics who, though brother and sister, were called separately by God to live a life pleasing to Him in a monastery. Today's reflection turns to the Blessed Mother and Holy Simeon in the Temple, and the way sorrow of this world mingles with joy - particularly, how this should motivate us to seek the unalloyed joy of Heaven, our native home, the way a feeling of nostalgia draws us back to that which is good but no longer with us, we must have a nostalgia for God - longing to be with Him, knowing we can never truly be perfectly with Him as long as we are here.
Advisory: I had to use a different pair of headphones to record, so the background noise is a little worse than usual. Long-time listeners will remember when every episode sounded like this, speaking of nostalgia! We'll be back to normal Wednesday.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste, offers prayers for Stefaniya's father, his full recovery and perfect healing. We offer the prayers of the sick, for recovery of bodily health, from the end of the Rite of Extreme Unction. Today's reflection is two-pronged, discussing both the authority found in the Crown of Thorns as well as the example Christ sets for us to imitate in our own pursuit of Salvation, the meaning of which is only available to us because of the descent of God to us, first as the Messias and then as the Holy Ghost who makes the meaning of Our Lord's teachings clear to us, and His way is simple: putting aside ourselves.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John of God, offers prayers for Marta and her unborn baby, for their health and safety. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard, whose patronage is expectant mothers, especially those who are anxious or experiencing difficult pregnancy. Today's reflection focuses on the messages of hope we have before us in this second week of Lent, the way God reveals Himself and the way to Him in the Nativity, the Descent of the Holy Ghost, and the Crown of Thorns, but mostly how He offers us proof of His love through the special way He gives us the grace necessary to seek and find him by means of the Holy Ghost.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Perpetua & Felicity, offers prayers for the baptism of Sheila O'Brien's three grandchildren. We beg the intercession of Ss. Monica and Augustine to enlighten the understanding and enkindle the affection of the parents of these children to the necessity of Baptism not only for their children's sake, but indeed for their own. Today's reflection deals with the personal nature of our God, how that personality manifests itself in the Incarnation, and why the Nativity fundamentally changes how we approach sin and repentance, especially as we come into this second week of Lent.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Cunegundis of Luxembourg, offers prayers for Ilya, a Russian tanker known to a listener, who fell in battle in the Ukraine. We offer for him the Latin Requiem prayers. Today's reflection considers the desperate need we all seem to have for hope, and how hopeless and absurd the world can seem when our suffering lacks the meaning that only Christ can give it - and, in turn, why the scourging, by which Christ takes upon himself all the sins of the flesh, gives meaning to our suffering in a special way, and is a source for us of both eternal as well as mundane Hope.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Albinus, offers prayers for Johnny, a little boy who is in the hospital suffering terribly from a disease that has robbed him of his ability to walk, talk, eat, and breathe. We beg the powerful intercession of the Blessed Mother on his behalf as well as that of his family. Today's reflection is on the Ascension and the hope it provides us in times of temptation, especially on our Lenten journey, and the echo it offers of the fourth of Christ's Last Words - "my God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows and the first Monday in Lent, offers prayers for Jack, his return to the Faith and healing of heart and mind. We beg the intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower of Jesus, for childlike faith and the warming of love that has grown cold. Today's reflection considers the Blessed Virgin's decision to leave Galilee and go to her cousin's house in Judah to tend to Elizabeth and share Elizabeth's isolation for the remaining 3 months of her pregnancy, preparing the way for St. John as St. John would prepare the way for her Son, Our Lord Jesus.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Friday after Ash Wednesday and the Feast of St. Matthias the Apostle, offers prayers for Fr. Manny, who is recovering from kidney surgery in the Philippines. We offer the prayers of the healing of the sick taken from the end of the Rite of Extreme Unction. Today's reflection is on the Agony in the Garden, the way in which Christ prepares Himself for the conquest upon the Cross of the anti-trinity of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and the way in which we must combat this anti-trinity within ourselves as we make our way through the preparations and deprivations of Lent.
Today's Daily Decade, for Ash Wednesday and the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch, offers prayers for the conversion of the leadership of dissident political leaders in America and throughout the West. We beg the intercession of Ss. Louis IX, Vladimir of Kiev, and Bl. Charlemagne for the Holy Ghost to inspire and guide these leaders, and make their movements successful insofar as they glorify God and His Church. Today's reflection is on the Resurrection as our goal, and what it takes to get us there during the Lenten Season and during our entire lives as Christians.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Eucherius of Lyon, offers prayers for the good priests of the Church who work to defend the Faith and seriously hold themselves to their vows. We beg the intercession of Ss. Stephen Protomartyr (deacon), Valentine of Rome (priest), Ignatius of Antioch (bishop), and Peter the Apostle (Pope) on behalf of all the priests, prelates, and hierarchs who are tasked with the defense and cultivation of the Faith and Christ's Church on Earth. Today's reflection is on Mary and Joseph immediately following the Annunciation, and what they're behaviour teaches us as we prepare toe enter the season of Lent.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Scholastica, offers prayers for the father of long-time listener and proprietor of the Alithea Xediplothike telegram channel, who recently suffered injury in a car accident. For his perfect healing we offer prayers of the sick. Today's reflection is actually a discussion of Church teaching on what Christ is doing for us on the Cross, St. Anselm's articulation of the Satisfaction of the Cross, and the blessings we reap because Christ turned the curse of death upon itself, making it into a gateway to our full restoration.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John of Matha, offers prayers for the people of Brazil against the spread of godless political ideologies, especially Communism. We beg the intercession of St. James the Moor-slayer against the forces of godlessness assaulting the people of the Iberian patrimony. Today's reflection is on the meaningless nature of worldly crowns and worldly powers, and the imperishable crown and real authority of Sainthood which we all should be seeking.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Titus, offers prayers for Aurora, recently baptized niece of one of our long-time listeners. We beg the intercession of St. John the Baptist on behalf of this new handmaiden of God, her parents, her godparents, and her entire family that they might serve God well, bring forth fruit worthy of penance for themselves and those near to them, and raise her to be a Saint. Today's reflection is on seeking Christ, and the way the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph seeking the lost child Jesus mirror the Hebrews awaiting and seeking after their Messias, not finding Him in the warrior kings and rebels whom they followed, and largely rejecting Him when He manifested as Jesus, the humble Galilean who preached Penance and Salvation to all nations.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Blase, offers prayers for the perfect healing of Brad, who is under intense stress and in need of comfort and struggling with mental health. We offer the prayer for the sick on his behalf. Today's reflection is on the way of the cross, and how to make the most of our own crucifixion, which we cannot escape - do we choose to be crucified against Christ or with Him? To call upon Him to give our Cross purpose or to revile Him for not taking us down from the Cross? Do we have the fortitude to lean into the cross, knowing His Kingdom is on the other side?
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch, offers prayers for peace in the Ukraine and the welfare of the people there. To this end, we beg the intercession of St. Josaphat, great martyr of the Ruthenian Church whose patronage extends over Belarus, Ukraine, and all Slavic Catholics. Today's reflection is, appropriately, on suffering, and why we must embrace it rather than flee from it, as well as the sorrow and suffering Our Lady underwent to be rewarded with her glorious Assumption, and the way in which we become perfect like Christ and all His Saints.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John Bosco, offers prayers for the working men of the world, especially those whose work leaves them exposed to the elements as they labor. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph the Worker, that the struggles of working men cause them to grow in grace and their families to grow in health and faith. Today's reflection is on the obedience of the Presentation, and the eagerness to do God honor on the part of the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph, echoing the eagerness of David and Solomon to do God honor by building Him a Temple, the same Temple He promised to provide Himself in His Incarnation as Jesus Christ, that we may all "worship Him in Spirit and Truth"
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John Xrysostom, offers requiem prayers for the repose of the soul of Betty. Today's reflection is on the Crowning with Thorns, and what separates the executioners from the persecutors of Our Lord, exemplified by the Roman mockery and humiliation of Christ. The Romans reveal their ignorance of God through their actions, just as all who worship God but do not live according to His Word and Law reveal an ignorance that mocks Christ's kingly title.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, offers prayers for the mother and brother of Alexander (whose name I forgot when I was recording - mea culpa!). We beg the intercession of Ss. Benedict and Scholastica and Ss. Francis and Claire, both pairs of siblings who became great saints through mutual encouragement. Today's reflection is on the three descents of the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures, and the way God gave His young Church the tools she needed to complete her mission - fortitude and hierarchy - and how He gives each of us the tools we need to complete the vocation He has appointed for us.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Raymond of Pennafort, offers prayers for the good health of the grandmother of listener LGG. We beg the intercession of St. Luke the Evangelist, that all of her ailments of soul and body be healed perfectly by the Divine Physician. Today's reflection continues our thread on the Joyful Mysteries being linked to the Old Testament, and considers the parallel of Christ and Moses, both deliverers of a nation God intended to be holy - can we, the people of Christ, live up to this Divine Intent in the way our predecessors, the people of Moses, did not?
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Fabian and S. Sebastian, offers a Requiem prayer for Willie Soliven. Today's reflection is on the Scourging, and the way in which Christ gives Himself entirely to His suffering in that moment of the Passion, and what it means for us as Christians to live, work, suffer, and rejoice in the moment, and to live moment to moment in our struggle with our own flesh and tendency to sin.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome, offers prayers for LP and BP, who are struggling in their marriage, that they be spared the destruction brought on by the sin of divorce. We beg the intercession both of St. Monica of Thagaste and Ss. Joachim and Anna, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for God's peace and charity. Today's reflection is likewise on peace, and the cure Christ offers us to the natural state of dissension and conflict in the hearts of Fallen Mankind: the unity and hierarchy of His order exemplified by the Early Church, which we can yet all imitate in our lives.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Marcellus I, offers prayers for the conversion of the "papa" of Alithea Xediplothike channel on Telegram (I pronounced it wrong in the episode). We beg the intercession of St. Remigius of France, whose conversion of Clovis of the Franks was a direct cause to the rise of a unified civilization in the European Middle Ages - showing the power of a single conversion to the Faith. Today's reflection looks at the Visitation as a distant reflection of the promise made to Abraham, of the doubt of Sarah and the faith of Elizabeth, and of the freedom brought to those in the bondage of sin by Christ, Our Saviour already in the womb.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Veronica of Milan and the Octave Day of the Epiphany, we offer prayers for E.P. who is in an ongoing battle with cancer and going to the hospital today for follow-up. We pray the Prayer of the Sick, taken from the middle part of the Rite of Extreme Unction. Today's reflection considers Christ in the Garden, but also all of Christ's preparatory work throughout His earthly life - preparation for His ministry, for His mission, and finally, for His Sacrifice on the Cross, and the way in which His Agony and Prayers offer us a model of constant preparation before our daily battles - and example of humility and an admonition to wakefulness in our Christian life.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Theodosius the Hermit, offers prayers for Asa, who has fallen, or is falling, away from the Faith. We beg the intercession of St. Monica ofThagaste that Asa be strengthened in her relationship with both her family and her faith, and grow in that strength which only Christ can bestow. Today's reflection is on the Resurrection from the Tomb as the Triumph of Christ, that is, as the celebration of the Victory and Conquest He has already achieved over death and the devil on the Cross, and how we are invited to share in this Triumph as an act which unifies us as Christians to both each other and to our God and Saviour.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Julian and Basilissa (a husband and wife!) offers prayers for Elizabeth, Chav, and an anonymous servant of God who are all single and seeking a faithful (and Faithful) spouse. We beg the intercession of St. Prisca on their behalf, that they might find an easy courtship ending in a godly marriage, or that their vocation to religious life might be clarified. Today's reflection considers the Annunciation as it relates to the Fall, beginning a series on the Joyful Mysteries and their prefigurements and parallels in the Old Testament, and how they echo humanity the way humanity ought to echo God.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Epiphany, is a special edition: a "year in review". If you're a new listener, a sampling of what you'll hear, if you've been listening and praying with me, a chance to revisit the favourite installments of each of the last five series. God love you!
Today's Daily Decade, the last of 2022, on the Feast of St. Eusebius, offers prayers of healing for Hannah, a young woman with a cancer, and for her family who are struggling with this difficult situation. Today's reflection considers the two great symbols of Christ's suffering and God's love for all of us: the manger and the cross, and how we ought to respond to each with a mixture of mourning and sorrow for our sins but also rejoicing and thanksgiving for our salvation.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Nicasius and his Companions, and Ember Wednesday of Advent, we offer prayers for Gottfried, who asks to do the Will of God in his life placidly. We beg the intercession of St. Thomas the Apostle against doubt, skepticism, second-guessing, and all kinds of disturbance in faith. Today's reflection focuses on the Crowning of Our Lady, not merely the crown for her but what she represents and why God has set her up as a beacon for us, both as a symbol of the Church and an archetype of the Christian.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Finian of Clonard, offers prayers for Raju and Lucia, both of whom are outside the Church but married to faithful and believing spouses. We beg the intercession of St. Monica of Thagaste on behalf of these souls and their wife (Shirley) and husband (Alex). Today's reflection is about seeking Christ, and where He is to be found - not in the world, not even in the good parts of the world, but in the place of perfection which has been set aside specifically for Him to dwell, in His Church and in the Christian who lives the life of Christ.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Leocadia of Toledo, offers an Itinerarium prayer for George, a very long-time listener who is travelling to the Indian Subcontinent for work and will be leaving his family here in America. Go with God, my friend! Today's reflection is on the Way of the Cross, why it is normal and human to have an aversion to suffering, and how we can perfect ourselves by imitating Christ with His perfect resignation, willing to die on the Cross after His Agony in the Garden, or the saints who actively desire suffering for Christ's sake, to "fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ" (Col i, 24).
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Ambrose of Milan, offers prayers for an anonymous friend of long-time listener from the Telegram channel Alithea Xediplothike; this young man is apparently considering abandoning the Faith. We beg the intercession of St. Ambrose himself, who converted St. Augustine, that this anonymous servant of God be strengthened. Today's reflection focuses on the Assumption as a special gift given to Mary to exceed the tremendous mercies and gifts God already offers to the rest of us as the wages of our imperfect service to Him, manifesting the patience he showed to the ancient Hebrews and the Jews of Christ's own time. (I also digress for a time into the subject of incorruptibility).
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Sabbas, offers prayers for Anthony, who is struggling with depression and anxiety, afflictions all too common in this modern world. We beg the intercession of St. John of the Cross, who had such intimate knowledge of the darkness we experience on our journey to knowing God more perfectly. Today's reflection is on the two-fold Presentation in the Temple - the return of the Ark of the Covenant in the person of the Blessed Mother and the fulfilment of the purpose of the Temple with the coming of Christ, making manifest the salvation of the whole world and the humble sacrifice of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Viviana of Rome, offers a requiem for Thomas, a music director at a Catholic parish whose sudden passing has left them in quite a spot to find a replacement of equal talent and devotion. Today's reflection is on the Crown of Thorns as it relates to Our Lord's humble birth - how the King of kings chose the filth and the poverty of the world to manifest His humanity, and yet challenged, and continues to challenge us, to see the face of God in His Face, marred by sweat and dust and blood. We are called to know our God when we look upon Him, and to imitate His meekness, One who with a word made the world and with a word can destroy it, but chose to die for us, by our hands, and in our midst.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Andrew, offers prayers for Faith Agama and Esther Joseph, requested by listener Faustina Gift, for the success and health of pregnancy and the growth of their families in number, health, and faith. We beg the intercession today of St. Gerard Majella and St. Anthony of Padua toward this end. Today's reflection is on the Descent of the Holy Ghost as the means whereby we are given everything we need to attain to salvation - not by our own efforts, strengths, or powers of body or intellect, but by proper self-diagnosis before we approach the Divine Physician to heal us with His Grace. We recall what tremendous mercy this represents for us, but also how much more fearful His Judgement will be now that we have no excuses for the sins we ignore.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. James della Marca, offers prayers for two anonymous servants of God experiencing difficulties in courtship. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph, betrothed of the Blessed Mother, for healing of this courtship or healing of the servant and handmaid of God if the courtship has ended unsuccessfully. Today's reflection considers the Nativity of Our Lord and the way in which it reminds us of our own birth, and therefore of our purpose, and what we must do each day to be pleasing to God and to accept the offer He made to us on the day of His Nativity to come to Him seeking Salvation.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria, offers a Requiem prayer for Kevin, whose name was submitted by friend of the show Walrus Aurelius. Today's reflection looks at the Scourging and the example it offers us for discipline and self-conquest as we come to the first Sunday of Advent.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Clement I, offers prayers for Augustine and Anne, who are struggling with marital troubles. We beg the intercession of Ss. Joachim and Anna, whose marriage produced the Blessed Virgin Mary. Today's reflection considers the Ascension into Heaven and what it tells us about Christ as we reflect on the Four Last Things - Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell - and the yearning we should have for Christ to correctly approach those things.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple, offers prayers for Will and Mariah and their unborn baby. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard, patron of expectant mothers, and St. Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist. Today's reflection focuses on St. Elizabeth and the way in which she encounters God when He comes to her, first with the blessing of her pregnancy in old age, and again with the visitation of the Blessed Mother. For Advent, we reflect on how these encounters fit in the long history of direct encounters with the Almighty, and what St. Elizabeth teaches us about how Christians should encounter God.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Dedication of Ss. Peter and Paul, offers prayers for Leo, who is suffering from cancer, for his perfect healing, recovery, and full preparedness for the Four Last Things. Today's reflection is on the Agony in the Garden as well as the Divine Agony of God the Son humiliating Himself by taking on our fleshly nature, and how awareness of our own humiliation as fallen humans is essential to sharing in the glory of the same God who humiliated Himself for our sakes.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Gertrude the Great, offers prayers for an anonymous servant of God who is struggling through a divorce. We beg the intercession of St. Thomas More that the sin of divorce might be averted or, at least, that God's will be fulfilled in minimizing the damage done by this unfortunate human decision. Today's reflection considers the Resurrection, the promises kept by Our Lord to us, and what it means to look forward in joyful hope to His Second Coming at the end of days.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Josaphat of Polotsk, offers prayers for B.Y., his wife, and their unborn baby due in April 2023. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard Majella for the health and success of the pregnancy. Today's reflection is on the complex meaning of Angel, and the way in which we serve as angels of annunciation of our Messias to the World, especially as we draw near to Advent, echoing the role played by St. John the Baptist.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Martin of Tours, offers requiem prayers for Manuel, who passed in good standing with the Church. Today's reflection walks through the Seven Last Words of Our Lord upon the Cross, and the meaning they have in reflecting the work of the Cross.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of All Souls, we offer prayers for Michelle, her unborn baby, and her husband who submitted this prayer request. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard, patron of expectant mothers. Today's reflection follows our prayer for the repose of all the faithful departed, and considers the nature of sainthood in the Kingdom of Heaven and how it relates to the unique crown Our Lady, Dowager Empress of Creation, wears.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Vigil of All Hallows, offers prayers for Kate, for healing after a miscarriage and overcoming anxiety. We beg the intercession of the Holy Innocents on her behalf, that her loss might lift her to Christ. Today's reflection calls us to consider the Blessed Mother as she sought the child Jesus, sorrowing at his loss and yearning to be reunited as all Creation yearned for His arrival - she, the new Eve, the first representative of all Creation to walk with Him to His Throne and to receive from His Hand the Salvation of His Sacrifice, before even the Apostles.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Christ the King (sorry I'm late) offers prayers of Requiem for Julie, who died in despair. Today's reflection is on the Way of the Cross, and the four participants besides Christ, and how they serve Him or fail to serve Him, based on how they assent to or dissent from the Passion and Cross.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Evaristus, offers prayers for Faustina and her upcoming examination, for success in this and all scholarly undertakings. We call upon Ss. Thomas Aquinas and Albert the Great to lend their prayers to her undertaking. Today's reflection is on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and why it is so important that the new Eve should be assumed into heaven just as the old Eve was interred within the Earth, and what it means for us to put off the old man and old woman and put on the new man and new woman in Christ.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel, offers prayers for listener Michelangelo in his battle with sins of lust, and for all men struggling with this particular vice as we draw near to November. We beg the intercession of Ss. Anthony the Great and Mary of Egypt to aid these men, young and old, single and married, in this battle that they might lead pure lives. Today's reflection is about the Presentation in the Temple and Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary - acts which were required by the law of God for the nation of Israel, but which did not apply to Our Lord and Our Lady because they were both innately pure replacements for the Ark and the Law, but nevertheless fulfilled the law out of pure love for the Law of God because it was God's.
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, for the Feast of Pope St. Callistus, offers prayers for SouthernSpumoni, producer for our generous hosts at ExAm and long-time listener, who was just in the hospital. We offer prayers for the sick today. Today's reflection is on the Scourging, and the way our reluctance to sin - or our reluctance to resist - reflects our participation in the Scourging.
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, on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory and the Most Holy Rosary, offers prayers of healing and strength for Trevor, who has been diagnosed with a cancer, and Molly his wife as they bear this cross together. Today's reflection is on the love of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, who considers each of us individually and each of our sins and chooses free-willingly to die in agony for our sake, that in spite of all the sins we have committed and will ever commit, we will have the opportunity to repent, to do penance, and to enjoy Salvation.
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.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Jerome, offers prayers for the sick on behalf of Patricia, who is suffering very advanced dementia, for which cause we also ask St. Joseph to intercede for her as Patron of a Happy Death. Today's reflection is on the Crucifixion, and the way in which it expressed the heart and soul of our religion as a manifestation of our most fundamental creed, the Pater Noster.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Wenceslaus, offers prayers for long-time listener and friend of the prayercast, Harambeson, for a safe and stable work environment. We beg the intercession, naturally, of St. Joseph the Worker for this intention. Today's reflection is on the Coronation of Our Lady and the way it reflects the general resurrection we all look forward to, the Resurrection not only of our souls, but of our bodies and therefore of the greater whole in which they participate with those who are bound to us by shared genetics, just as Our Lady is bound to Our Lord in this unique way, and what it means to be "worthy of the promise" of this resurrection.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Cyprian and Justina, offers prayers for listener Veritas, his wife, and their unborn child, for health, strength, and the protection of God over them. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph as patron of fathers and workers and St. Gerard as patron of the unborn. Today's reflection considers how we seek Jesus, or ought to seek Him, as part of our persevering quest for the Kingdom of Heaven and the peace and tranquility it promises us, sojourners as we are in this world of sin and death.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Pope St. Linus, offers prayers for a nameless teacher of listener EuphoricAurora, who runs the Alithea Xediplothike channel on Telegram. This teacher has a cancer of the skin; we offer prayers for the sick and a brief appeal to St. Bartholomew for his perfect healing. Today's reflection is on the way of the Cross as well as the two ways people live and seek Christ which err from the path to Calvary - namely to take the burden of the Cross but without Christ, and to desire Christ and all His Promises but without the Cross of struggle and suffering. We must seek the third, correct way, since the Life He promises comes from the struggle and suffering of the Cross.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Matthew, offers prayers on behalf of Elena, for her conversion to Catholicism from Protestantism, submitted by listener Grand Nagus. We beg the intercession of Ss. Ignatius of Loyola, Peter Canisius, Robert Bellermine, and Francis Xavier, all disputants with the Protestants and great proselytizers of the Faith. We reflect today on the Assumption, and what this mystery contains to be imitated, and what promises we might obtain from considering the Assumption of the Mother of God - who she was, who we are, and how we might reflect her virtues and benefit from her merits.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Januarius and his Companions, offers prayers for the wayward family members of listener Moralis Retrogradus. We beg the intercession of the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph and appeal to Christ directly, invoking the Holy Family for M.R.'s family. Today's reflection considers the Holy Family at the Presentation, and the way in which our humanity and our Christianity depend so much on our family, both before us and after us, and how just as the Blessed Humanity of Our Lord depends on His Mother and her guardian, St. Joseph, the Foster-Father of Our Lord.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Stephen of Hungary, offers a Requiem for Marilyn, a good Catholic matriarch who recently passed, submitted by an anonymous listener. Today's reflection is on the Crowning of Thorns, or on the King who wore the Crown, and how He is received by the people when He is recognized by Pilate ("Behold the man...behold your king") and when he is pointed out by St. John the Baptist ("Behold the Lamb of God"). Do we desire God only for His Mercy, or for His Justice and Mercy both? To be the Lamb only, or our King also?
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Raymond Nonnatus, offers prayers for long-time listener Sentinel Roo, for assistance with OCD and habits of vice. We beg the intercession of the Little Flower of Jesus, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, well-known both for her personal discipline and for bearing the cross of scrupulosity. Today's reflection is on the Descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, and the entry of the Holy Ghost into our everyday devotional lives, and what patience and a sense of humble recognition of the state of our soul do to help us receive the inspiration He brings.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, offers prayers for Ally and her struggle with substance abuse and addiction, an intention submitted by listener Sentinel Roo. We beg the intercession of St. Bernadette Soubirous, visionary of Lourdes and exemplar of innocence and humility before God and the world. Today's reflection is on childlike trust in God, and the journey we take through life on the path to Sainthood - and how it reflects, or is anticipated by, the journey taken by St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem so the Messias might be born in the City of David.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Zephyrinus, offers prayers for the repose of the soul of a Dr. Whitcroft, submitted by a friend of the prayercast. In lieu of appealing to a saint, we pray a Requiem for the same. Today's reflection is on the scourging, in a sort of roundabout way, but more it forces us to consider how deliberate God's choices are, and why He should have determined that the perfect time, place, and circumstances of His Passion should have been during the Roman occupation of Judea.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Bartholomew, offers prayers for educators mired in godlessness, sin, and perversion, for their conversion and eventual salvation. This intention, submitted by the admin of the Alithea channel on Telegram, is offered specifically for some teachers who have acted in improper ways towards her. We beg the intercession of St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of scholars and recipient of the Angelic Cord. Today's reflection is on the Ascension into Heaven as a second 7th day, on which God the Son took His repose after completing His New Creation.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, offers prayers for Rob, that he might return to the Faith and Church of Christ. We beg the intercession of St. Robert Bellermine, his namesake. Today's reflection is on the Blessed Mother's Visitation of Elizabeth and the material lesson it conveys to us about bloodlines, family, and what we owe to our own people and particularly our own house.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John Eudes, offers Requiem prayers for Herbert, a relative of one of our listeners who recently passed away. Today's reflection is on the lessons taught by Christ's example in the garden, what the Apostles failed to learn from it and what we learn both from Christ and from the Apostles.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Hyacinth, offers prayers for Jason, that he may grow in love of the Faith and Christ. We beg the intercession of St. Peter Canisius, SJ. Today's reflection considers the work God did between His Passion and Resurrection, and the model it sets for us to never rest or be idle in our Faith.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, offers prayers for JP, for his ongoing job hunt, and for his continued happy marriage and healthy family. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph, patron of husbands, fathers, and workers to this end. Today's reflection addresses the Annunciation, and its place restoring the presence of God in the world lost to mankind's sin, and what His promise, that He is now with us always, announces to us and asks of us, His Church.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Clare of Assisi, offers prayers for Natalie, Ryan, and their unborn baby Jude, for safe delivery and continued growth in health and devotion as a family. Today is a bit unusual, since it is a Friday but we nevertheless pray in English and beg the intercession of St. Gerard - this intention was originally supposed to be offered this past Monday, the Feast of the Four Crowned Martyrs. Today's reflection is on the Crucifixion and the way Christ reveals his triune identity as Son of David, Son of Man, and Son of God even as He dies for us on the Cross, as a last effort to win the hearts of the stubborn people to whom He was sent. Instead, He wins the thief and centurion - Ss. Dismas and Longinus.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Lawrence, offers prayers for Vernon, that he may grow in closeness to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother for this intention. Today's reflection is about the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, what it means when we say "Our Lady", and how we render service to God by honoring His Mother.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Jean-Marie Vianney, Curé d'Ars, offers prayers for the handmaiden of God from Alithea, for her safety and well-being in a new school setting. We beg the intercession of St. Thomas Aquinas as patron of scholarship and chastity. Today's reflection is on the profundity of God's love for His people, and the heartbreak of our failures to respond to that love.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Dedication of Our Lady of the Snows in Rome, offers prayers for a nameless handmaid of God with a cerebral hemorrhage. We offer the prayers of the sick from the Rite of Extreme Unction. Today's reflection is on the Way of the Cross as a portrait of Christian life and the way we live it as Christians both each day and throughout our lives.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Finding of the Relics of St. Stephen Protomartyr, offers prayers for an anonymous servant of God committed by his family to a psych ward. We beg the intercession of Ss. Benedict of Nursia and Michael the Archangel, both powerful warriors in the fight against the devil and his angels. Today's reflection considers the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and what both Mary and the other Saints teach us by their example about habits of holiness and keeping our minds before God at all times.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Peter in Chains, offers prayers for Daniel and his conversion to the Catholic Faith. We ask the intercession of St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast was yesterday. Today's reflection is on the meaning of the Temple as a tool of God to manifest Himself and why we need temples in our own lives, including our own bodies.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Martha of Bethany, offers prayers for Victor, for his healing and full recovery. Today's reflection is on the Crown of Thorns as an acknowledgement, albeit unintentional, of Christ's Kingship and the model of kingliness He exemplifies to us as we strive for the crown of sainthood.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Pope St. Victor I, offers prayers for Todd and his recovery from a stroke. We beg the intercession of St. Boniface (and St. Bonaventure). Today's reflection is on the three-fold founding of the Church in the three first Glorious Mysteries, and what our mission as the Church Militant is as the true light-bringers of God.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Ann, offers prayers for Martin and his family. We beg the intercession of St. Ann herself for their health and well-being, spiritual and physical. Today's reflection is on the Nativity of Our Lord and the way St. Joseph, through ordinary circumstances, became an extraordinary saint, and why the family is so essential to the transformation.
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 St. Henry the Exhuberant, Emperor, offers requiem prayers for Sr. Martha Jean, whose name was submitted by long-time listener Harambeson. Today's reflection deals with the spiritual realities of the Agony in the Garden and the ongoing meaning of Christ's Agony to us in our day-to-day lives. It is in Gethsemane that we overcome temptation and learn to truly resist the devil by placing ourselves in the power of Christ who has already resisted all temptations and conquered all sins.
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 St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, offers prayers for PJC, his wife, and their unborn child. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard Majella for a healthy pregnancy, safe delivery, and the strengthening of PJC as a father and husband. Today's reflection considers the Archangel Gabriel and how he fulfils his purpose in announcing the coming of the Messias to the Mother of the same, and how we can learn to imitate even the angels.
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.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, offers prayers for Irene and for M.R., who are both seeking gainful employment. We beg the intercession of St. Joseph the Worker and St. Anthony, the finder of needful things. Today's reflection is about the two Coronations of the Rosary, the earthly coronation of Christ and the Heavenly Coronation of Our Lady, and the dual motion of God reaching down to man while drawing man upward to Him.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Ladislaus, King of Hungary, offers prayers for Julie and all the sorrowful, lonely, and broken-hearted of the world. We beg the intercession of St. Bernadette of Lourdes, who knew such sorrow in life and was promised happiness "in the other [world]". Today's reflection is on the Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple, and how our sorrows are often accompanied with joy in this life or glorify God, drawing us nearer our goal of our eternal happiness - it is Christ, the Head of His Body, which moves us, His members, to serve His Will. We sorrow where we resist this will, or where we do not understand it, but we may rejoice that we are His, and it is His Will for us to share in the eternal happiness of His Kingdom, if we will but accept that Will.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, offers prayers for Rene, who has been admitted to the hospital with water in his lungs. Because of the urgency of his case, I've made an exception to the usual Friday Requiem prayers, and we offer for him prayers of the sick excerpted from the Sacrament of Extreme Unction. Today's Reflection is on the four participants in the Passion on the Way of the Cross: the Blessed Mother, Simon of Cyrene, St. Veronica, and the weeping women of Jerusalem. We consider who each of them are, and which of them we are, and which we ought to strive to be in our own path to the Cross of the Christ that is our Salvation.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Paulinus, offers prayers for Miranda, who has been diagnosed with a high-risk pregnancy, and for Bethany, who is also pregnant, both submitted by the same listener. We ask the intercession of St. Gerard, the patron of pregnant women and good confessions, that the travail of pregnancy and childbirth draw these women nearer to their God and imitation of His Blessed Mother. Today's reflection is on the Assumption of the same Blessed Virgin Mary, and the gift it represents, freely given by Our Lord to His chosen Queen of Saints, both to honour her uniquely and as a model of the gifts and graces He freely gives to us when we walk with Him in our lives.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Pope St. Silverius, offers prayers for the conversion of Alfredo from his sodomitic lifestyle and the ideology that has trapped him there. We beg the intercession of St. Catherine of Sienna, who receive the grace to know what demons drive mankind into such sins and how the demons regard our sin. Today's reflection considers first the joy we experience at fulfilling God's Will, what His Justice and Mercy mean to us, how our patience is rewarded, and the tribute paid to the Blessed Mother by St. Simeon at the Presentation in the Temple.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Gregory Barbarigo, offers a requiem prayer for Catherine, a relative of one of our listeners who passed into eternity this week. Today's reflection is on the Third Sorrowful Mystery, the Crowning with Thorns, and asks us to consider how we crown Our Lord in our lives, especially our spiritual lives, and the ways in which our ignorance, neglect, presumption, and pride weave the crown of thorns to add insult to the injuries of His Passion.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Ss. Vitus, Modestius, and Crescentia, offers prayers on behalf of a nameless servant of God who has given himself to the powers of Satan and apostatized. We offer prayers to Ss. Monica and her son Augustine of Hippo to let the light of God return this wayward soul to Him and that the demons who cajole, seduce, and molest him might be crushed. Today's reflection considers the gifts we receive at Pentecost, the way they mirror the gift given to the Blessed Mother at the Annunciation, and the responsibilities that these, like all of God's gifts, carry with them.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, offers prayers for M and R, widow and son of TJ for whom we prayed in series 4 of the Daily Decade. Today we pray to St. Anthony to help them find the peace, stability, and order that can only come from the Creator of the universe. Today's reflection focuses on the quietest voice in the Joyful Mysteries and, indeed, in the Gospels themselves - St. Joseph - and on what his silence teaches us about how to accept and relate to the presence of God in our own lives. Do we have the discipline, humility, and sense of duty that St. Joseph had?
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland, offers a requiem prayer for Fr. Dominique Bourmand, an exquisite priest who passed into eternal life in September 2021. Today's reflection considers the Scourging of Our Lord, the sins of the Flesh, and how we fight the devil in his efforts to degrade and diminish God's greatest creature, which is Mankind.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of S. Hedwig of Poland, offers prayers for Isaac and Rob, one of whom has apostatized from the Faith and the other whom is weighed down by sorrow and disbelief in the loving God. We offer prayers to St. Dominic on their behalf, that the falsehoods whispered by the devils shall find deaf ears and the joy of knowing the love of God fill their lives. Today's reflection considers the Ascension into Heaven, and why we have a great grace of being able from the beginning to receive the fullness of Christ that His Apostles were only given after His Ascension.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Norbert of Xanten, offers prayers for Gregory, the father of one of our listeners, who is struggling after being named chief inheritor of his parents' estate, dealing with the stresses and sorrows of that compounded with family members who after years of absence have returned to act as accusers seeking some of the inheritance. We offer prayers to Ss. Mary and Martha of Bethany to strengthen him in this time of sorrow and guard him from the worldlings who seek their reward in this life, that he might reap the treasures of Heaven. Today's reflection recalls the central characters of the Visitation, and the way in which the Blessed Mother and S. Elizabeth manifest that greatest of all virtues, namely humility, and how we can do the same, giving glory to God by way of offering Him those blessings He sends us.
Today, the Daily Decade dips into the archives and comes up with an early episode only available on Telegram. No Rosary in this special, just the reflection. Today we reflect on Pentecost as God's Divine Anti-Babel.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Kevin of Glendalough, offers prayers for the repose of the soul of S.B.'s grandmother. We offer a Requiem with the intention that her time in Purgatory might be brief or, if she should already be in Heaven, that her prayers be joined to the saints and magnified before the Lord. Today's reflection revisits a post from the Telegram channel on the three Apostles present in the Garden of Gethsemane, and the examples they offer to us, both for good and ill, in our attempts to follow Our Lord and remain true to Him in our own times of trouble.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of S. Angela Merici, offers prayers for Neal, an acquaintance of one of our listeners who suffers from Stage 4 Cancer. We offer prayers to S. Jude the Apostle on behalf of him and his wife and children. Today's reflection considers how sin blinds and deafens us to Christ, so that even in His presence and the presence of His gifts to us we, like S. Mary Magdalene and the Apostles on the Road to Emmaus, do not recognize Our Lord and Savior unless He calls to us by name and we respond.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Pope S. Felix I, offers prayers for all our listeners and particularly for all those engaged in spreading the Faith through online apostolates, that we all constantly remember that we are ambassadors of Christ. Today's reflection is on the Annunciation and why, though it is the beginning of the New Testament, it represents mystically our ultimate goal as Christians, and how we journey backward through Christ's ministry to arrive at this ultimate goal.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Cyril, offers prayers for the father of N.A., to St. Blaise. No reflection today. This is, sadly, the end for now. I'm just out of steam and can't get back up to speed. Please continue to pray for me and everyone who has ever written into the Daily Decade with prayers. God love you all!
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Romuald, offers prayers for Julia to Our Lady as she appeared at Lourdes.
Today's reflection is on God as judge and authority, and how our understanding of how He wants to be viewed influences our relationship with Him.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Andrew Corsini, offers prayers for the deceased family and friends of all listeners. Today's reflection is on patience, longsuffering, and meekness, and why the pressures exerted on us in this life can be means whereby we are drawn closer to God, if only we would take the initiative to cooperate in them.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Blaise, offers prayers to the Holy Family for all our families, both of the Faith and without it. Today's reflection is on the strength that derives from devotion to God and what it means when Christ says that His "strength is made perfect in weakness".
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Purification, offers prayers for all the priests and religious who minister for God. Today's reflection is on the reason for our prayers, the goal of Christian life and devotional life.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch, offers prayers for the conversion of the families of TJ and Valerie. Today's reflection is on grounding a life of prayer in something solid, and the use of devotions and sacramentals in accomplishing this.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John Bosco, offers a prayer to St. Stephen on behalf of A.V., who is struggling with forgiveness. Today's reflection focuses on Our Lords words "I pray not for the world" and the revulsion we must have for all things of the world, that is, of Satan, to be truly Christian.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Peter Nolasco and the second Feast of St. Agnes, offers prayers for S.L. to St. Joseph for finding work. Today's reflection is on happiness, contentment, sadness, despondency, and how to keep the Apostle's admonition to "rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing" (I Thes. v, 16).
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. John Xrysostom, offers our prayers for the repose of the soul of T.J and for his wife and kids. Today's reflection is on practical advice for loving God and drawing nearer to sanctity in our lives, not merely avoiding sin but actively desiring what God desires.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Polycarp, offers prayers for the grandmother of listener S.S., who passed away this week. Today's reflection meanders through the problem of focusing too much on the minutiae of world problems before arriving at the value and meaning of the Holy Rosary as a method of prayer to make us better Christians and better men.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, offers prayers for the unity of Christians against our common enemy. The reflection deals with the Rosary itself, the invocation of Saints, and what you can expect in the new series. Also, we have a new opening which may be adjusted as time and technology allows.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Victoria and the fourth Thursday in Advent, is about the crown that Mary wins, and the way it models the glory that is possible for all humanity to attain by God's grace and mercy and our own Faith, and the Hope that Mary by her intercession as well as example seeks to kindle in our hearts and is the chief virtue of this season and the Christmas holiday. Today's prayer intention is for John and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Frances Cabrini and the fourth Wednesday of Advent, is about the Assumption as both reward and test of faith for believers in Christ, and the example Our Blessed Mother inevitably sets for us. Today's prayer intention is for D.W. and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Andrew, Peter, and Joseph.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Dominic of Silos and the fourth Monday of Advent, is about the glories of God, and what we need to experience and understand in order to glorify Him fittingly as the Apostles did at Pentecost. Today's prayer intention is for an anonymous family threatened with homelessness and today's intercession is asked of St. Martin of Tours.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Sturm and Ember Friday of Advent, is about the Ascension and our liberation from the slavery to the flesh through the salvic work of Christ confirmed by his return to heaven prior to Pentecost. Today's prayer intention and Requiem is for Jessica. Today's intercession is asked of the Blessed Mother.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Paul of Latros and Ember Wednesday of Advent, is about the Resurrection and why Christianity is chiefly a religion of Hope, the ancient anxieties of "red/blue/white/blackpills" and why Christ has already answered them. Today's prayer intention is for Hk and his wife, and today's intercession is asked of The Holy Sleepers of Ephesus.
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.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John of the Cross, is on Thanksgiving, gratitude, and the absolute necessity of a personal God to understand and express either of those things. Today's prayer intention is for Harambeson. Today's intercession is asked of St. Matthew the Evangelist. Today's Requiem is for Sr. Martha Jean
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Clement I, is about love, the pain that must accompany it, and why all real love is a kind of mortification which demands much and sacrifices much. Today's prayer intention is for D.S. and today's intercession is asked of St. Monica of Thagaste. Today's Requiem is for Alison, Woodlyn, and James.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Cecilia, is about why so few devotions of the Church focus on the End Times, and how we should work to avoid the distraction of Apocalyptic fascinations, visions, and the like, focusing instead on Christian living. Today's prayer intention is for W.R. and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Commemoration of the Dedication of the Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul, is on the confidence we should have before men and before God, and the Faith that drives away both the fear of men and the human fear within us, that we might better bear the crosses that God gives us. Today's prayer intention is for an anonymous handmaiden of God. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Faith, Agnes, Catherine, Lucy, Anastasia, and the Holy Virgin-Martyrs of the Persecutions. Today's Requiem is for Craig.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Gregory the Wonderworker, is about the anger and hatred we feel in our fallen state and how different it is from the Divine Anger and Perfect Hatred God and His Saints possess. Today's prayer intention is for W.R. and his son. Today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph, Terror of Demons and Patron of Fatherhood. Today's Requiem is for Fr. Defour.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Gertrude the Great, is on the petty infighting that erupts in small communities of the Just, how they measure our justice and righteousness, reveal our faults, and the dangers of their real-world impact if we allow them to fester and grow. Today's prayer intention is for W.A. and his new niece. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Joachim and Anna, grandparents of Our Lord. Today's Requiem is for Eria, Nakimuki, and Poloko.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Albert the Great, is about how God teaches and trains us from unexpected sources, and how others around us can be the means whereby we train ourselves to know, love, and serve God. Today's prayer intention is for ACAS; today's intercession is asked of St. Catherine Labouré. Today's Requiem is for Annet and Leonard.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Martin, is about what it means to judge, and why what the world calls judging is in fact a requirement of Christians. Today's prayer intention is for our friend Luffy. Today's intercession is asked of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Today's Requiem is for Mary, James, and Jean Marie.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Theodore, is about the expectations set for us and the obstacles we face as we pass into higher and nobler states in our way to sainthood, and the Divine Fatherhood of God. Today's prayer intention is for Luffy. Today's intercession is asked of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Today's Requiem is for Shirley, Martha, and Christopher.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Four Crowned Martyrs, is on what we can do to overcome the evil that threatens the Church and makes our lives so difficult through acts of prayer and sacrifice on behalf of both the poor souls as well as the living who cannot or will not make reparation for their many sins. Today's prayer is on behalf of James. Today's intercession is asked of St. Photini of Samaria. Today's Requiem is for William, Robin, and Ernest.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Elizabeth the Mother of the Baptist, is on simplicity of heart and the point at which simplicity resists evil, especially the evil of persecution, deception, and injustice. Today's prayer intention is for D.W. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Isidore the Farmer and Joseph the Worker. Today's extra Requiem is for VR, Sally, and Bobby. All November we will be saying an extra Requiem for your deceased loved ones!
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, is about the way the Stations of the Cross model our own struggles, why the struggle gets harder at certain times, and why it's worth it to press forward through the slog to our destination - especially this November. Today's prayer intention is for G.H. and today's intercession is asked of St. Gregory the Great.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Malachy, is on the ways in which the mirages of this world - be they sport or politics or something else - rob us of the focus we need to reach God, the font of all Being and Reality. Today's prayer intention is for Don. Today's intercession is asked of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Today's Requiem is for Eli, Mavis, Doshie, Neva, Josephine, and Carl.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of All Souls, is about the way in which we fulfil our obligations to the Church Suffering and the preparations we are meant to make to join them or the Church Triumphant in the hereafter. Today's prayer intention is for the grandparents of R.R. Today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph. All November we will be praying an extra Requiem Aeternam each day for a departed soul. Please send us names you wish to have remembered!
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of All Saints, is about the example of the Saints and our own struggles and trials, and why the month of November is to us an ideal time to conquer vice. Today's prayer intention is for Vince. Today's intercession is asked of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Narcissus, is about the place of the dead in the Church, the meaning of the word Catholic, and how we should be thinking of the Church Suffering and the Church Triumphant as we enter the Triduum of All Hallows. Today's prayer intention is for Patrick. Today's intercession is asked of St. Luke.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Simon and Jude, is about mortification and the two directions that it goes in - the death of the spirit and triumph of the carnal or the death of the appetites and the life of body and spirit. Today's prayer intention is for D.V. and his late fiancée, Holly. Today we prayed a Requiem Aeternam and did not invoke any specific saint.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Abbán, is on the centrality of death in our Faith, and the need to pursue a good death as a means to overcome the cleavage created by the Fall between us, and by extension Creation, and God our origin and Creator. Today's prayer intention is for the grandfather of listener James. Today's intercession is asked of St. John the Apostle.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Evaristus, is about the love of God, and what the consequences are of an imperfect knowledge and imperfect love for God. Today's prayer intention is for Pius and the young lady he is courting. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Faith, Barbara, Agnes, Lucy, and Anastasia.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Ursula and her Companions, is about what the Joyful Mysteries reveal about the way in which God tested the Blessed Virgin Mary, just as He tested the Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Testament. Today's prayer intention is for S.B.'s uncle, who may need to go on dialysis, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Thérèse of Lisieux, Bernadette of Lourdes, and Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, is about how we use the resources we have available to work out our salvation, and the difference between what God gives to women and what He makes available to men for this purpose. Today's prayer intention is for Dolores, the repose of her soul. Today we prayed a Requiem Aeternam so we did not invoke a saint.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is on how the Blessed Mother lived her life, and how all saints live their lives, without regrets and with joy in the face of and in the midst of sorrows. Today's prayer intention is for A and E, friends of James. Today's intercession is asked of St. Colette of Corbie.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Our Lady of Victory and the Holy Rosary, is about the root of all sin and vice, which is pride, or resistance to God and the Triumph of Fallen nature over Created nature, and why it is at the root of all other sins. Today's prayer intention is for CastIronLocust, and today's intercession is asked of St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Bruno, is on our attachment to the world and the appetites that fuel that attachment, how to master those appetites, bring vice to heel, and cultivate virtue in our daily lives. Today's prayer intention is for S.B.'s father and his family. Today's intercession is asked of St. Pius V.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Placid and Company, is about sloth, laziness, cowardice, pusilanimity, and how they all relate together and hold us back from God in the accomplishment of our appointed tasks. This is the first in a 3 part series. Today's prayer intention is for Luffy, and today's intercession is asked of St. Francis Xavier.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, is about the chief means of our travels down the road of life - our Guardian Angels to navigate and the Sacraments to refresh, restore, and maintain us. Today's prayer intention is for S.B., whose uncle is in the hospital. Today's intercession is asked of his Guardian Angel and St. Luke the Evangelist.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Jerome, is about the benefits and dangers of learning and the holiness that is found in simplicity, holiness that can convert the least likely. Today's prayer intention is from G.W. who has two friends getting married soon, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Joachim and Anna, parents of Our Lady.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, is a brief discussion of how to use the 5 Sorrowful Mysteries to prepare for Confession or to perform a simple Examination of Conscience, to reorient ourselves to the Way Christ calls us to follow. Today's prayer intention is for W.R.'s mother. Today's intercession is asked of St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Wenceslas, is on sin and sainthood, and the means that God gives us in His bountiful Mercy and largesse of Grace for our Salvation. Today's prayer intention is for Nydia. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Mary of Egypt, Joseph the Terror of Demons, and Michael the Archangel.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Cosmas & Damian, is on the every day awareness of our sins and petty pride and ego in otherwise mundane interactions with others, and how these offer us an opportunity to keep our conscience sharp. Today's prayer intention is for T. Today's intercession is asked of St. Luke the Evangelist.
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.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Nicolas of Tolentino, is about why we suffer, struggle, and strive, and what the degree of our suffering says about God's knowledge of our own ability to endure in His service. Today's prayer intention is for W.W. and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Terror of Demons and St. Anthony the Great of Scetis.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Peter Claver, is about the doubt we experience in these trying times, particularly about the institutional church, why doubt and fear always accompany warriors going into battle, and how to bear them as members of the Church Militant. Today's prayer intention is for L. Today's intercession is asked of St. Paul the Apostle.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is about righteous anger and perfect hatred, and how they differ from their fallen, human counterparts, and why they accompany our love for God. Today's prayer intention is for C.M. and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Worker.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Regina, is about Our Mother of Sorrows and what devotion to the Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary means to us and the particular sorrows and burdens of our day, age, and civilization, and why we can and should look to her for consolation in all our difficulties, both personal and communal. Today's prayer intention is for H. Today's intercession is asked of St. Gregory the Great.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Stephen of Hungary, is on the way our souls have become disordered by a kind of revolution that took place in the Garden of Eden, wherein Reason was overthrown by the mob of passions and appetites that now rule us, and our task to restore Reason to its proper place that we might direct our souls to the King of Kings. Today's prayer intention is for G.H. and all facing the vax mandates, and today's intercession is asked of St. Thomas Moore and All Saints of England.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Giles, is on the Sorrows of Our Lady and how they showcase the two basic kinds of suffering man experiences in this life, and how we can bear that suffering for the greater glory of God. Today's prayer intention is for V. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. John the Baptist and Valentine of Rome.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Raymond Nonnatus, is about why those who see the signs of the times always seem to be in a minority, and why the loneliness that accompanies our "redpills" should never give us cause for despair, but rather rejoicing in God and constant effort to fulfil His Will. Today's prayer intention is for A.V. and his grandmother. Today's intercession is asked of St. Mary Magdalene and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Rose of Lima, is on the lesson that St. John the Baptist teaches us about Truth and Power, and what it means to permit our conscience to speak clearly and freely in the court of our souls, that unlike Herod we might be converted and saved. Today's prayer intention is for F. and his family, who are in the path of Hurricane Ida. Today's intercession is asked of St. Louis, King of France, and the Blessed Mother under her title of Our Lady of Prompt Succour.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, is about seeking a wife or husband in the poisoned waters in which we are obliged to swim, and how there are things we must seek first if we wish to make a good and fitting match. Today's prayer intention is for S.B. and his wife, and today's intercession is asked of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary herself.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Zephyrinus, is again on marriage, but in more practical terms what makes a marriage and family Godly, since Godliness must be our real goal if we want a successful marriage or successful family. Today's prayer intention is for Tom, and today's intercession is asked of St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Louis of France, King and Confessor, is on what makes manhood and womanhood work together, and what true manhood and true womanhood need to be to fulfil the role God has assigned to each for a godly life and godly marriage. Today's prayer intention is for S. and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Monica and Augustine as well as Our Blessed Lady.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, is on marriage, and how a marriage and family is modeled after the Holy Trinity, how to use that knowledge to maintain a family, and why unity of purpose and unity of mind is so important to a successful marriage. Today's prayer intention is for Talissa, from long-time listener James, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Philip Benitius, is on the pointlessness of seeking solutions to occult riddles and the direct and plain teachings of God. Today's prayer intention is for L. and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Joachim and Anna.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, is on out crosses, and the way God takes Creation to give us burdens to bear for our salvation as well as joys that make our crosses easier to bear, and how both are a reason for thanksgiving. Today's prayer intention is for Brian, a friend of listener E.B., and today's intercession is asked of St. Paul the Apostle and St. Luke the Evangelist.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. John Eudes, is on the spiritual castration of depression and impotent rage, and the way the Devil uses these to drag us back down into the mire of sin and keeps us from ever accomplishing anything fruitful. Today's prayer intention is for an anonymous friend of the broadcast and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Worker.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Agapitus, is on the place of death in our personal and social lives, and how a people who wish to live and live well must be made up of individual persons who know how to die well. Today's prayer intention is for the repose of the soul of Hector, a listener, and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph as patron of a happy death.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Hyacinth, is about prudence, temptation, near occasion of sin, and how the world we live in creates a battleground for us and a playground for the demons in ways we might never even think of. Today's prayer intention is for Cast Ironlocust, and today's intercession is asked of St. Lazarus of Bethany.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Joachim, is about maintaining the health of the soul and the health of the body, and why as Christians we cannot separate one from the other. Today's prayer intention is for G. and for his family member who has been called before the Throne. Today's intercession is asked of St. Arnold of Metz and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Hippolytus & Cassian, is on joy and battle, and why we must always rejoice and be glad, for God has won the fight for us already. Laugh the enemies of God to scorn and rejoice in Christ our King, for He is eternally victorious! Today's prayer intention is for a spirit of thanksgiving and humility for all our listeners, and today's intercession is asked of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Clare of Assisi, is on resisting evil in our lives, and the root of courageous faith in simplicity and trust in Christ our Shepherd. Today's prayer intention is once again for S.B.'s sister and brother-in-law, as a follow-up on earlier this week, and today's intercession is asked of St. Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Tiburtius & Susanna, is about our vocations, what a vocation means, and how to discern one that we might give glory to God as He desires us to. Today's prayer intention is for James, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Dominic Savio and Pio of Pietrelcina.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Lawrence of Rome, is about love - namely Godly love, and how it differs from, and must command, human love to prevent the latter from becoming perverse, and why it is essential to maintaining a united front against evil. Today's prayer intention is for S.B.'s sister and brother-in-law (sorry, S.B., I said it backwards in the recording) and today's intercession is asked of St. Gerard.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Romanus, is about what St. Joseph gave up to be the Foster-father of Christ and what rewards have been prepared for us who make a similar sacrifice, and what terrible sorrow is for those who give up the same for nothing but fleeting worldly praises or riches. Today's prayer intention is for S. and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Apollinaris, reflects on why we care about all the upsetting news in the Church, what it means about our Faith, and how we can use our investment in our religion to improve ourselves. Today's prayer intention is for A. who is struggling coming out of a period of depression and stress. Today's intercession is asked of Ss. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, is on the way worldly aspirations and ladder-climbing pull us from God, but in a different way than other vices, and why the spirit that drives them can be redirected towards higher things. Today's prayer intention is for two families with loved ones in a critical state in hospital, for the strength to glorify God in all things. Today's intercession is asked of St Anne the Mother of the Mother of God.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Margaret of Antioch, is on the need of self-accusation and penitence for our personal sins, in contrast with the self-justification and condemnation of nation's and generations' for past sins real and imagined. Today's prayer intention is for L., who is undergoing operation, and today's intercession is asked of St. Luke the Evangelist and St. Paul the Apostle.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, is on sorrow, and what Our Lady's Sorrows teach us about God's Will and Desire when it comes to our own sorrows, great and small. Today's prayer intention is for Ryan and Natalie, who are struggling through the loss of their unborn twins Abigail and Ambrose. Today's intercession is asked of Our Lady as Our Mother Most Sorrowful.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, is a short reflection on our worldly anxieties and concerns, and the simple promise that Faith in Christ will save us - therefore, be anxious of one thing only, how faithful you are to Christ. Today's prayer intention is for people, especially priests and seminarians, struggling with doubt, and today's intercession is asked of the Blessed Virgin Mary as she revealed herself to St. Simon Stock.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Henry the Emperor, is on the fourth and fifth Joyful Mysteries and the lessons they hold about our own spiritual life and the source of authentic joy. Today's prayer intention is for a friend of the show whose wife just gave birth to a premature baby by emergency C-section, and today's intercession is asked of St. Gerard and Our Blessed Mother.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Pope St. Anacletus, is about the Cross, or more correctly about the Crucifix, and why we cannot be Christians without it - we may fall away to a religion of the Cross or a religion of a christ, but we cannot have the Christ and His unique promises without His Crucifixion, and our willing participation in the same. Today's prayer intention is for the Stark family who are suffering financial hardship as a result of a layoff, and today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph the Worker, Blessed Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Foster-father of Our Lord.
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.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Vigil of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, is on obedience, and how the great saints of the Church always sought out authority to obey and to whom to subject themselves, finding humility wherever possible and returning all authority and command they themselves were given back to God as a personal oblation. Today's prayer intention is for Davide, who is getting ready for final exams, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Aloysius Gonzaga and Thomas Aquinas.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St Paulinus, is about Mary, and how the Sorrows of the Blessed Mother of God encompass and absorb our sorrows, and direct our sufferings to her Son, who in His Mercy makes use of them for our reclamation. Today's prayer is for the research team of Rey, who runs the Militia Immaculatæ Knight account on Telegram and Instagram, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Gabriel and Michael the Archangels.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, is on the effort we must exert in the face of trials, and how in distraction and under duress, our prayers gain us merit according to the effort we put into them. Today's prayer intention is for B. and his new business, and today's intercession is asked of St. Nicholas of Myra as patron of merchants and businessmen.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Ephrem the Syrian, is on Fatherhood and what it supports, and what supports it, and why preserving both is a responsibility not to be taken lightly. Today's prayer is for fathers both biological and spiritual, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Joseph the Foster-father of Our Lord, Peter the Apostle, and Pope Pius X.
Today's Daily Decade for the Feast of St. Rainerius of Pisa, is on the challenges of raising a child in this time, and what is essential to success in Christian parenting. Today's prayer is for Greg and his wife who is having a baby today, and today's intercession is asked of St. Gerard.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Jean-François Regis, is on making use of the tools we have around us for our spiritual betterment, especially for the constant task of penance and penitence, to survive in the spiritual wilderness that is the world. Today's prayer is for Jim, for fortitude and resilience in his responsibilities, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Thomas Aquinas and Anthony of Padua.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of Ss. Vitus, Modestius, and Crescentia, is about prayer, especially petition, and why it is both worthy and pleasing to God to petition Him, even for petty things, and the grace we should hope to receive to see more clearly what we should want and should pray for. Today's prayer is for the family of Justin Haggerty from The Daily Knight and for his family, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Peter and Paul.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Basil the Great, is on the reason and purpose of the tests and challenges we are given by God, rising to those challenges, and confessing Christ by our deeds, words, and lives. Today's intention is for S., that his work and housing issues might be resolved. Today's intercession is asked of St. Joseph, foster-father of Our Lord.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is on emotions, especially those emotions that lead us to despair, and how much human emotion differs from Divine Love, which warms and enlightens even as it tries us in fire and painfully cleanses us of impurities. Today's prayer is for those struggling with depression and despair, and the intercession is asked of Jesus Christ through His Most Sacred Heart.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland, is about the sacramental journey reflected in the five Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, the call they represent for us to embrace these sacraments and their graces, in imitation of Our Lady and in accordance with the desire of Our Lord. Today's prayer is for an anonymous handmaiden of God struggling with repeated miscarriages, and today's intercession is asked of Ss. Gerard Maiella and Collette of Corbie.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Ss. Primus & Felician, is on authority, and how ready we seem to surrender it in matters which we needn't and cling to it in matters which we shouldn't, refusing to hear expertise on Faith, but elevating expertise on worldly matters, and thereby becoming enslaved in all matters to a spirit of the world. Today's prayer is for Sam and Philomena, and today's intercession is asked of St. Anthony the Great of Scetis.
Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of Ss. Medard & Gildard, is on the way in which God prepares us for coming persecution, and how Christians have generally been regarded as insane or eccentric immediately before we are regarded as dangerous, and what we must do now to prepare for the coming persecution. Today's prayer intention is for Justin and his family, and today's invoked saints are Paul the Apostle and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Robert of Newminster, is about the Rosary as a means to participate in the wider prayers of the Church, and particularly with the monastics whose prayers arm the soldiers of God in our battles with the demons, both the daily temptations and direct confrontation of exorcists. Your Rosary is the most powerful spiritual weapon you have, and it's efficacy grows with more frequent use! Today's prayer intention is for A.P. and her friend Sam, for right use of social media.
Today's Daily Decade is about Christian Fatherhood and what makes a food father in a Christian house, what our responsibilities are to wife and children, and how we fulfill those. Today's prayer request comes from Amicus, who is going to become a father for the first time very soon. Today's invoked saints were Ss. Joseph and Gerard.
Today's Daily Decade is on the Gifts of the Holy Ghost and the way in which we are called to witness the Faith both inwardly and outwardly, and the means whereby we orient ourselves to the service of God.
Today's Daily Decade is about how we should pray to God in more practical terms, that is, the language that we use when addressing God for meritorious prayer.
Today's Daily Decade is about prayer, why we pray, for what we should pray, and what prayer does for us and our religious life.
Today's Daily Decade is about turning our mundane and daily work into prayer, and through a daily discipline that integrates prayer and work we can sanctify our labours and glorify God by them.
Today's Daily Decade is on the example of the Saints, particularly contemplative prayer and why a prayer life is so essential to any and all good we do as Christians, and the absence of a contemplative live deprives all our good works of any spiritual merit.
Today's Daily Decade is on judgement and subjecting ourselves to rigorous examination when the world tempts us to prefer judging and admonishing our fellow Christians first.
Today's Daily Decade is about marriage, and the mundane and quotidian ways in which a husband loves his wife and a wife submits to her husband, with examples drawn from real life, and why our focus in all we do must be our duty to God first.
Today's Daily Decade is about prayers for the dead and remembering that we are part of a greater community than what we see around us, and that our prayers for the dead unite us with our forebears in the Faith, binding the Church Militant, Church Suffering, and Church Triumphant.
Today's Daily Decade revisits an old theme of why we should make the effort to pray most when we want to pray least, both to train ourselves in our prayer discipline and to give greater glory to God.
Today's Daily Decade is a bit of a different reflection on unclehood, that is of the peripheral support of fatherhood and motherhood, and the need of such men to sustain a Christian society by offering a model of masculine love and responsibility different than that of fathers.
From the Archives: this Daily Decade was broadcast on November 11, 2020 and was on our family as a gift as well as a duty entrusted to us by God, and what that means for both our Christian belief and our Christian living.
Today's Daily Decade is about second guessing ourselves and dwelling on past failures, and why this is a diabolic and sinful arrogation of Divine station, which obstructs humility and Hope.
Today's Daily Decade is on faith in that which defies reason, and why our Faith, to be true Faith, must have some element of this in it, for the Wisdom of God is foolishness to man for a reason.
Today's Daily Decade is about our personal vocations, the expectations we set for God both consciously and unconciously, and the expectations He sets for us.
Today's Daily Decade is about modesty, specifically why modesty is an inward virtue, which manifests only partially outwardly, and why the focus on the outward aids in the spread of immodesty rather than combating it.
Today's Daily Decade is about holiness, and what we learn about how our people and our saints have produced it and pursued it according to their own natural, national strengths and limitations, chief among them the universal limitation of the Fall. Look to your national saints if you wish to join them!
Today's Daily Decade is on praying with our ancestors, honoring the Traditions handed on to us, and striving to embrace the place, time, and bloodline God has made each of us a part of.
Today's Daily Decade is on the place of End Times prophecies in our spiritual lives, and how we can misuse or misunderstand them to our detriment, growing in attachment to things of this world rather than to things of God.
Today's Daily Decade is about bearing the Cross, and what has happened to races and what can happen to individuals who reject the it, and why we should strive not merely to resign ourselves to Christ's Cross, but embrace it with love for Him.
Today's Daily Decade is on metanoia, or inner conversion, and how the Seven Sorrows of the B.V.M. reveal this process to us, and can serve as a meditation on our own conversion of heart, with an eye towards perfecting our own conversion to Christ.
From the archives: this Daily Decade was broadcast on November 19, 2020 and is about the importance of being prepared not only for God's Judgement and the Second Coming, but indeed all the afflictions of the devils and chastisementss of God in our life, for holiness is found in never being taken by surprise.
Today's Daily Decade is about the Greater Crusade, the Holy War within us that we must wage to make our hearts worthy thrones of Our Lord, that He might Rise within us from the tombs of our sinfulness and give us new life and new strength to wage the wars we must wage without against powers worldly and infernal.
Today's Daily Decade is about the necessity of spiritual exercise and what kinds of training we need to prepare for our spiritual combat and also for our particular judgement by Christ.
Today's Daily Decade is on the awareness we must have of our spiritual surroundings to maintain our endurance in spiritual combat against the Devil and our own fallenness.
Today's Daily Decade is on the resignation, dispassion, peace, and interior gratitude that permit a warrior of Christ to fight his battles day to day, joining his Lord on the path to Calvary.
Today's Daily Decade is about what makes a valorous and cowardly man, how they both related to Christian virtue, and why valour come easy to good Christians.
Today's Daily Decade is about unjust anger, hurt pride, and the way heated Internet exchanges bring us closer to the fires of Hell if we do not use them as humbling experiences.
Today's Daily Decade is on holy images and their beauty and utility in prayer, especially that prayer which brings us closest to God, contemplative prayer.
Today's Daily Decade is about persevering in the face of obstacles, relying (though never presuming) on God's mercy, and always moving forward in our struggles with confidence.
Today's Daily Decade is on penance - specifically, on why the best penances are not merely sacrifices, but exercises; that is, things or activities which improve us, and which we grow to love because they enrich our spiritual lives.
Today's Daily Decade is a reflection on St. Paul's admonition to "rejoice evermore", drawn from the pages of Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ. How do we rejoice in such a world and with keen awareness of our sins?
Introducing "From the Archives": on certain Saturdays, we will be bringing back several Daily Decades that never appeared on Anchor. This Daily Decade was broadcast on November 10, 2020, and was on Christian love and the appeasement of evil, the whole-hearted devotion to which Christ calls each of us, and what we can learn from Pilate's attempt to placate the children of the Devil.
Today's Daily Decade is on the meaning of a Friday in Easter week, and what we learn from contemplating those at the foot of the cross and around it, and how we draw our whole religion from this single, and singular, event.
Today's Daily Decade is about whom we should be praying for when we pray, especially if we have only been praying for ourselves, and who needs our prayers when we find it hardest to pray.
Today's Daily Decade is on how to pray when obstacles arise: praying as a family praying when you don't want to pray or when you don't feel like praying, and praying when you feel yourself in a spiritual desert. We also reflect on why these things happen to us.
Today's Daily Decade remains in the realm of practical advice, offering means to avoid distraction and maintain focus in our daily prayer lives, leaning on the saints and angels for help.
Today's Daily Decade is about the prayer corner or home altar, its usefulness in forming a prayer rule, and some practical tips on how it should be laid out and set up.
Today's Daily Decade is on the Incarnation and everything it signifies, entails, and accomplishes for us, both in the Sacrifice on the Cross and the Eucharist, and why Christianity is founded on a uniquely physical spirituality.
Today's Daily Decade retreads some ground we walked yesterday, due to the horrible audio quality of the last broadcast. We reflect on the doubt of Thomas, the doubt of Judas, the penitence of Ss. Mary Magdalene, Augustine of Hippo, and Mary of Egypt, and the example of Bl. Bartolo Longo, and the necessity of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Contrition in our preparation for Easter.
Today's Daily Decade is on penitence, overcoming our isolation from God, and the place we occupy at the table of Simon the Leper, where Judas rebuked a penitent and Our Lord rebuked Judas, a last word in the Prologue to His Passion.
Today's Daily Decade is on the pettiness and mundanity of evil, and the simple and quotidian ways we can fight it or reverse it in our lives.
Today's Daily Decade is about the perfection of Our Lady's bearing of sorrow in her life, and the role her Seven Principal Sorrows occupy in her life, her sainthood, and her queenship, and how they relate to the Christian understanding of suffering.
Today's Daily Decade is on the true joy Our Lady attained through a life of suffering, and the example she sets for us to attain Heavenly Joy through the close following of Our Lord in all His ways.
Today's Daily Decade is about the fire of fanatic love God demands and expects of us, as a means to maintain ourselves, clay vessels that we are, so we may bear the treasures of grace and resist the efforts of the World and the Devil to pervert our intended shape and purpose.
Today's Daily Decade is about belonging to a real community of fellow Christians, and what it means for our spiritual and mental well-being as humans.
Today's Daily Decade is about what it means when we feel far from God, or when He seems to have withdrawn from us, and attempts to begin answering the qustion what does it mean to be in favour with God?
Today's Daily Decade is on the remedy for disorder in one's life, namely devotion to God, in the form of rote prayer and specific devotional texts and objects. To order the soul is to give order to the whole life.
Today's Daily Decade for the Feast of St. Patrick is on the lessons in applied Christianity we learn from the Irish, above all that a people only becomes who they were meant to be through their acceptance of Christ as their King.
Today's Daily Decade is on our own innate weaknesses and inabilities, and how we overcome them through Christ - that is, how Christ overcomes them through our humble acceptance of them in our hearts.
Today's Daily Decade is not about politics, though the title might suggest it: today's reflection deals with how we must be on our guard against reactive religiosity, seeking instead an active, or perhaps pro-active spirit of religion in our lives.
Today's Daily Decade is a reflection on how we reflect the light and love of God, to be better witnesses of His Truth and to bring others to the Love of God and make reparation for those who refuse.
Today's Daily Decade is about our worldly employment and how to make it more valuable than a monetary paycheck by offering it to God in the form of a Cross.
Today's Daily Decade is about how we often waste our best efforts on the world, or on our own understanding of Good, rather than God's vocation for us.
Today's Daily Decade is about the prince of lies and his dominion over our thoughts and opinions through his agents in the Press and in our own ears.
Today's Daily Decade is a reflection on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and why this devotion is particularly valuable to us today as a weapon against godlessness of all kinds, and how it can cultivate the Love of God in us.
Today's Daily Decade is on saints and the role they play, or can and ought to play, in our lives. We have so many saints we can pray to, so many reparations we can make, and so many sins we can repair for.
Today's Daily Decade is on why it is so important to be active in a real world community to live a fully Christian life.
Today's Daily Decade is on the anxieties we have, both in Lent and in our day to day life, and the remedy for all our fears in the Fear of the Lord, and trust in His Providence.
Today's Daily Decade is about the wasted opportunity of a terrible marriage market to produce monastics and penitents to pray for the world and do reparation for the innumerable sins which have created the current situation of young men who cannot find good women and women who have waited too long to start a family.
Today's Daily Decade is on the dangers of taking too much interest in the specific flaws of the general hierarchy, and why consumption of news and opinions on the ongoing crisis in the Church produces very little spiritual benefit compared with the simplicity of penance, witness, and recognition of the weakness of priests and bishops. Confess the Church by your deeds, admonish privately, and speak no calumny or gossip.
Today's Daily Decade is on Christian filial piety, prayer and sacrifice for those given to us and those to whom we are given by God and what duties we have as fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, patriarchs, and matrons.
Today's Daily Decade is about being a good man and a good husband, and therefore a good marriage. It comes down entirely to making sure Christ is King.
Today's Daily Decade is on struggle and suffering (a recurring theme), and particularly the way in which we are called to imitate Our Lord for true Manhood, and Our Lady for true Womanhood.
Today's Daily Decade is about the importance of Scripture with good guides and how to gain Life we must actively Live the Faith, and make our hands follow our hearts and heads.
Today's Daily Decade is on the Devotion to the Holy Face and what it represents to us, both human and Divine, as the chief manifestation of Christ's Incarnation among men.
Today's Daily Decade is about prayers for the dead, and the wonderful gift that our children, both spiritual and material, are to us as descendents who pray for our immortal souls, helping us to win that incorruptible crown in the hereafter. Pray earnestly this Lent for those who have none to pray for them, they are poorer than the most destitute of beggars!
Today's Daily Decade is about Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, and Carnivál, and the deep religious meaning and purpose behind celebrating the last day before Lent (also implied is why it is particularly egregious to see such a celebration corrupted by carnality).
Today's Daily Decade is about discipline, and the means whereby we acquire it, especially through subjecting ourselves in obedience to an external authority through Consecration, or taking vows or joining a Confraternity, third order, or other form of lay religious life.
Today's Daily Decade is on always having before us the Joy of Christ and His Kingdom, and never forgetting the Sorrow we rightly feel in this Vale of Tears, and thereby imitating Our Lady.
Today's Daily Decade is about struggle, why it is so necessary to the world God created, and how its absence in our lives kills us in body, mind, and spirit.
Today's Daily Decade is about how all of the Apostles give us examples both good and bad. What of Judas? What does his example teach us about ourselves and our sins?
Today's Daily Decade is about conversion and arguments, and why debate and argument are always inferior to prayer in winning souls for God. Our strength is made perfect in weakness, therefore do not waste time and breath, but let your prayer and witness sway the apostates, heretics, and heathen around you.
Today's Daily Decade is a reflection on the doctrine of Salvation by Faith Alone, and why this contradicts the belief in a merciful and loving God who gives meaning to our suffering and teaches us that we are made for struggle and overcoming.
Today's Daily Decade is on hate and love, why these mean different things for a Christian than for the world, and how to cultivate perfect hatred and avoid imperfect hatreds.
Today's Daily Decade is a reflection on the allegorical presence of the seven sacraments in each of the Glorious Mysteries, and how the deeper meaning, mystery, and connection to the early Church represented by the Sacraments can be revealed or clarified to us through meditation on the Mysteries of the Rosary. What amazing gifts can we attain through more devout and intense meditation on the Rosary, if this is the fruit of simple reflection?
Today I invite you to join me in my morning Rosary for the Feast of Candlemas, the first set of Sorrowful Mysteries in the Month of the Passion, and Septuagesima Season. We pray all five decades in Latin (and some English) and share a brief reflection on the Feast and the coming Season.
Today's Daily Decade is about the dangers of resisting the chastisement for our sins, both generally and specifically as it regards the current state of the Church, and the example the Samaritans offer us of what not to be.
Today's Daily Decade is a bit of a departure inspired by a listener inquiry about the morality surrounding picking sides in current events, particularly in economics.
Today's Daily Decade is on the means I use to better reflect on the Glorious Mysteries, following up on the reflections on the Joyful and Sorrowful Mysteries last year. We give the five scripture passages I use and how they relate to each mystery.
Today's Daily Decade is a follow up on yesterday's, in response to some comments we received requesting clarification on what was said. In summary, "Christ is King", "do not let your hearts be troubled".
Today's Daily Decade is about politics, and what happens when we allow ourselves to become too attached to things that do not draw us nearer to God, including our opinions, emotions, and possessions.
Today's Daily Decade is on the spiritual lessons our children teach us, and why those who are childless but not in orders or vows are deprived of great insights into what God wishes for us.
Today's Daily Decade is a bit shorter than usual, and mostly points the way to an excellent sermon by the Curé d'Ars on the dangers of not being tempted.
Today's Daily Decade is on indifference and indifferentism, and the way in which we are called to combat both of them within ourselves generally, as well as the unique opportunity this historical moment has created for us to be witnesses against indifference and nihilism by confessing Christ.
Today's Daily Decade is about our need for vigilance, to be well-armed against the forces that avail us for a successful Inner Crusade.
Today's Daily Decade is about God's role in our creation as men and women and His deliberate purpose in creating us in a specific time and place.
Today's Daily Decade is about the saints who serve as examples to us, and how to embrace our suffering with penitence, to draw salvation out of it, for there is no salvation without sacrifice and the embrace of our cross.
Today's Daily Decade is on our responsibility to bear witness to the One Way, Truth, and Life that is Jesus Christ and to save our brothers and sisters from the false prophets and false saviors of the world. There is only one plan to trust: God's plan for our salvation.
Today's Daily Decade is about how Christ's Justice in the world is impossible without His Peace within us.
Today's Daily Decade is on Christ as our victorious King, and the inner Crusade we must wage to be worthy to join His ranks, and share in His victory over this world.
Today's Daily Decade is meant to clear up some misconceptions about martyrdom, and what it actually means, and why those who seek it will never find it.
Today's Daily Decade is on inviting the presence of Christ in camaraderie, and seeking God and our humanity in the silence of the Wilderness.
Today's Daily Decade is about preparation for the spiritual warfare we must wage as Christians, and why we must discipline body and soul for the combat we face, for we cannot reconquer the lands of Christendom by the sword, we must conquer with our Christian witness.
Today's Daily Decade is on the theological virtues, and how Christmas exemplifies the theological virtue of Hope, and what children have to teach us and what we must teach children during this Season of Christmastide.
Today's Daily Decade is about the first Christmas gift: the gift of the Christ child to St Joseph and the Blessed Mother, and what this gift of the Incarnation means to all of us.
Today's Daily Decade is about how God subverts our expectations, just as He did with the coming of His Messias. We expect one source of rejoicing, God disappoints us to give us a greater Joy than we could imagine.
Today's Daily Decade is a bit of a break with our usual format. Rather than Intro-Rosary-Reflection, I show you how the Rosary might be a helpful tool in examining your conscience on a daily basis or before Confession. This episode is meant not only for Catholics but for anyone who wants to stay accountable before God.
Today's Daily Decade is on three Saints named Thomas and the example they give us as we start this last week of Advent, anticipating the Nativity as we anticipate the Crucifixion in the last week of Lent.
Today's Daily Decade is on churches and spaces dedicated to God, and why we rightly make them ornate and beautiful as an offering to the Almighty.
Today's Daily Decade is on the Angelus, but also on the importance of maintaining traditions as a means to bear witness and become an exemplar of Christian living.
Today's Daily Decade is about a successful home structure and marriage, the hierarchy inherent to it, and the most helpful analogies for understanding the structure of a Christian family.
Today's Daily Decade is about the childish vices we retain and why Advent is a particularly good time to address them.
Today's Daily Decade is on who to bring our witness to, in contrast to yesterday's exhortation to know when not to waste our time. Bear fearless witness to win souls for Christ, counting not the cost.
Today's Daily Decade is on audacity on behalf of the Faith in imitation of our Blessed Mother's perfect example, combining perfect humility with absolute trust in God's Providence.
Today's Daily Decade is about prayer, namely the way in which the Rosary bridges the gap separating common and private prayer from liturgical prayer, allowing us access to many gifts of liturgical participation, which is part of what grants the Rosary it's power and efficacy.
Today's Daily Decade is about the necessity of physical fitness to a good Christian life, both because of the discipline it fosters and because it makes us more fitting temples of the Holy Ghost.
Today's Daily Decade is about keeping prepared for God, but never allowing ourselves to fall victim to the prideful confidence in our own abilities to anticipate He who comes as a thief in the night.
Today's Daily Decade is on Penance, and how to best understand it and offer it with love for its greatest effect, especially in the penitential and anticipatory season of Advent.
Today's Daily Decade is on your family, and why our ancestors in the Faith should inspire us, how we are obligated to them, and how failure to value ancestors deprives us of the Godly gift of descendants who value and pray for our souls.
Today's Daily Decade is on patron saints, particularly national and family patrons and their importance to preserving the Faith of our ancestors.
An introduction to our "prayercast", and an invitation for you to join us in praying your Rosary every day, to enrich your prayer life and in affirming the request of Our Lady of Fatima.