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The Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS4e22 Put on the Whole Armour of GodToday'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.2021-07-0931 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e74 The Theophanies of the RosaryToday's Daily Decade is about the Joyful Mysteries and the Theophanies (revealing of God) that take place in each of them and what lesson they teach us about how we react to God.2021-04-2830 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e73 Seven Sorrows as MetanoiaToday'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.2021-04-2727 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e64 Like a Thief in the NightFrom 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.2021-04-2423 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e72 The Greater CrusadeToday'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.2021-04-2329 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e71 Train and Be ReadyToday'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.2021-04-2228 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e70 Spiritual Situational AwarenessToday'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.2021-04-2132 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e69 Soldier of ChristToday'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.2021-04-2026 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e68 Valour and CowardiceToday'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.2021-04-1930 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e67 Silencing Anger and PrideToday'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.2021-04-1624 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e66 The Power of the ImageToday'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.2021-04-1530 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e65 Perseverance in the LordToday'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.2021-04-1425 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e64 Cultivating PenanceToday'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.2021-04-1328 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e63 Rejoice Evermore, Rejoice EverydayToday'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?2021-04-1224 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e58 Say No to Half-MeasuresIntroducing "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.2021-04-1023 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e62 At the Foot of the CrossToday'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.2021-04-0930 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e61 For Whom and What We Should PrayToday'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.2021-04-0932 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e60 When You PrayToday'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.2021-04-0727 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e59 A Way to PrayToday'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.2021-04-0626 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e58 A Place to PrayToday'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.2021-04-0530 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e57 Incarnate ChristianityToday'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.2021-04-0133 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e56 Doubt and FaithToday'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.2021-03-3130 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e55 Preparing Christ for BurialToday'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.2021-03-3030 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e54 Daily SelflessnessToday'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.2021-03-2932 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e53 The Seven Sorrows of Our Blessed MotherToday'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.2021-03-2632 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e52 The Perfections of Our LadyToday'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.2021-03-2528 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e51 How Clay Keeps its ShapeToday'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.2021-03-2426 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e50 Companions in ChristToday'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.2021-03-2330 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e49 The Presence of GodToday'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?2021-03-2229 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e48 Teach Me Thy StatutesToday'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.2021-03-1827 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e47 Lessons of IrelandToday'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.2021-03-1729 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e46 Perfecting Strength in WeaknessToday'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.2021-03-1627 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e45 Catholic Action & Catholic ReactionToday'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.2021-03-1527 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e44 Mirrors of the LightToday'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.2021-03-1328 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e43 Make a Cross of your WorkToday'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.2021-03-1124 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e42 Wise as Serpents, Harmless as DovesToday's Daily Decade is on how we must be able to spot evil wherever it is that we might face it, but in such a way that bears witness plainly, simply, neither compromising to political expediency nor surrendering ground to our enemies. Do not fear the name of a Christian, love God simply but be shrewd in your dealings with men.2021-03-1026 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e41 Give Your Best to GodToday'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.2021-03-1025 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e40 Give the Enemy no EarToday'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.2021-03-0924 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e39 The Love of the Sacred HeartToday'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.2021-03-0629 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e38 On Whose Powerful Intercession We RelyToday'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.2021-03-0525 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e37 In the World, not of ItToday's Daily Decade is on why it is so important to be active in a real world community to live a fully Christian life.2021-03-0432 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e36 Fear, Fearlessness, & St. JosephToday'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.2021-03-0227 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e35 Where are the Wedding Guests?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.2021-02-2731 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e34 Penance! Penance! Penance!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.2021-02-2531 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e33 As For Me and My HouseToday'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.2021-02-2430 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e32 The Silence of Feminine VirtueToday's Daily Decade is on patience, long-suffering, silence, and what makes a truly virtuous woman.2021-02-2421 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e31 Husbands Love Your WivesToday'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.2021-02-2329 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e30 True Manhood, True Womanhood, and the CrossToday'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.2021-02-2022 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e29 Let the Word Guide Your DeedsToday'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.2021-02-1926 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e28 Behold the ManToday'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.2021-02-1722 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e27 The Incorruptible CrownToday'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!2021-02-1726 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e26 Feast on God's MerciesToday'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).2021-02-1628 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e25 Be Subject to AuthorityToday'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.2021-02-1327 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e24 Draw Joy from Sorrow, Recall Sorrow in JoyToday'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.2021-02-1226 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e23 Worthy of StruggleToday'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.2021-02-1123 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e22 Do You Betray Me with a Kiss?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?2021-02-1026 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e21 God Desireth not the Death of the SinnerToday'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.2021-02-0932 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e20 The Mercy of Good WorksToday'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.2021-02-0525 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e19 Perfect HatredToday'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.2021-02-0532 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e18 The Seven SacramentsToday'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?2021-02-0324 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e17 Full Rosary - Sorrowful MysteriesToday 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.2021-02-0243 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e16 Be Not Like the SamaritansToday'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.2021-02-0130 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e15 Moneychangers in the TempleToday'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.2021-01-3030 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e14 Reflecting on the Glorious MysteriesToday'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.2021-01-2930 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e13 Render unto Caesar (Again)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".2021-01-2719 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e12 Render Unto CaesarToday'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.2021-01-2730 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e11 Be As Little ChildrenToday'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.2021-01-2634 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e10 Rooting Out Invisible SinsToday'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.2021-01-2324 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e9 Indifference and IndifferentismToday'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.2021-01-2132 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e8 Grant Me Not to Fall Asleep in the Death of SinToday's Daily Decade is about our need for vigilance, to be well-armed against the forces that avail us for a successful Inner Crusade.2021-01-1926 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e7 God's Creation and Our MissionToday'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.2021-01-1631 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e6 St Dismas and His ExampleToday'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.2021-01-1530 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e5 False Christs and False ProphetsToday'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.2021-01-1328 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e4 Reflecting on the Sorrowful MysteriesToday's Daily Decade brings us back to our roots when we first started recording back in March of 2020, offering a (partial) guide to reflecting on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.2021-01-1331 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e3 Christ Alone, the Rest will FollowToday's Daily Decade is about how Christ's Justice in the world is impossible without His Peace within us.2021-01-1229 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e2 Christ the Eternal VictorToday'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.2021-01-0823 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS3e1 On Love and DeathToday'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.2021-01-0722 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e91 Crying Out in the WildernessToday's Daily Decade is on inviting the presence of Christ in camaraderie, and seeking God and our humanity in the silence of the Wilderness.2020-12-3128 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e90 Spiritual SoldiersToday'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.2020-12-3027 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e89 The Season of HopeToday'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.2020-12-2924 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e88 The First Christmas GiftToday'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.2020-12-2428 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e87 Unexpected JoyToday'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.2020-12-2424 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e86 Examination of ConscienceToday'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.2020-12-2221 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e85 The Witness of Three Ss. ThomasToday'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.2020-12-2224 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e84 Judge not by AppearanceToday's Daily Decade is on the Fathers and Doctors of the Church and checking the many misattributed prayers and quotes floating about on the internet.2020-12-1833 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e83 Beautifying the TempleToday'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.2020-12-1830 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e82 Sanctifying WorksToday's Daily Decade is on the vocations of the priesthood and of the trades, and the way in which each sanctifies his hands by the labor he performs, and the example the tradesman and priest set for the rest of us.2020-12-1624 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e81 Setting Examples and Preserving TraditionsToday'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.2020-12-1634 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e80 A Christian HouseholdToday'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.2020-12-1529 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e79 Putting Aside Childish Things & PatienceToday's Daily Decade is about the childish vices we retain and why Advent is a particularly good time to address them.2020-12-1121 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e78 They that Have EarsToday'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.2020-12-1023 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e77 On Greater DistractionToday's Daily Decade is about avoiding distraction from the spiritual life brought about by pride and our desire to get bogged down among those who are not prepared to hear our witness.2020-12-1033 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e76 Humility before God, Boldness before MenToday'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.2020-12-0929 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e75 Praying with Others, Praying with GodToday'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.2020-12-0830 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e74 Discipline the BodyToday'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.2020-12-0533 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e73 Preparation and PrideToday'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.2020-12-0420 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e72 Make a Gift of Your PenanceToday'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.2020-12-0324 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e71 Family ValuesToday'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.2020-12-0230 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeS2e70 Disciples of the NationsToday's Daily Decade is on patron saints, particularly national and family patrons and their importance to preserving the Faith of our ancestors.2020-12-0125 minThe Daily DecadeThe Daily DecadeThe Daily Decade PrayercastAn introduction to our "prayercast", "spreading the true Lourdes message" - an invitation to you personally to join millions of Christians who find joy in the midst of their sorrow from the glory of the Holy Rosary. Join us in praying your Rosary every day, to enrich your prayer life and in affirming the requests of Our Lady at Lourdes, Fatima, and elsewhere.2020-11-3000 min