S9E4: The Visitation, the Second Mysteries

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.