S12E3: Lenten Sacrifice, Divine Agony

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.