Translated by P. Metoděj Minařík, O.Carm.
The obstacles to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit are: double-mindedness, stubbornness, "cursed lukewarmness," lack of humility, and self-attachment.
In contrast, the most suitable conditions are: a simple intention, "dead will," active participation in the "loving love" of the Word, recognition of one's nothingness. It is necessary to strive for three characteristic signs of this Spirit. They are: purity, truth, holiness.
The Holy Spirit is the "Spirit of love," therefore love for one's neighbor is a condition and also a fruit, as the saint says on the feast of Pentecost in 1604: “This divine Spirit is love and seeks love, therefore it will not settle in those hearts that do not love... This divine love and pure Spirit cannot and does not wish to reside in souls that have sharp tongues, for it very much detests and abhors murmuring tongues; it stays away from them and flees.”
“But how sweet and delightful is the path, where the body walks with the Spirit and the Holy Spirit with the body, so that the soul, with every step it takes, gives birth to God a thousand times, if He could be born, He who cannot be born... With every step (so to speak) it takes, it gives birth to God. With every movement of the feet this soul makes, it gives birth to God. On this path, it converses with this Spirit, who is all love, so that with every word, every thought, and every desire, it gives birth to Christ.”
“The moving and always unmoving Spirit draws forth (like from a spring) from the essence of the Father His glory... and from the incarnate Word love, to bestow it upon creatures, to glorify them, and to lead them in love... This Spirit, like a flying and hovering eagle, seizes and carries the souls that have received Him, and brings them before the Word. Some of them He places in His most Holy Head, others in the holy lips, and others are so pure and beautiful that He can place them – He does this with delight – in His radiant eyes, indeed they become eyes themselves that see what the Word sees... And this can only happen through participation in grace, a feeling of love, and being intoxicated by blood...
The soul sees God always when it sees God in every thing.1 The soul sees creatures (people) whenever, with the feeling of love, it yearns for their salvation. And this yearning is so great that it is not satisfied with one, two, or three cities, but sees even those who are yet to come.”
“The Holy Spirit took the Word from the bosom of the Father and planted it in Mary.”
“I see this Spirit of purity, stirred by the Father, descending with unmoving motion and pouring into Mary with fervor.”
Processed according to the book by Bruno Secondina, O.Carm.:
Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi. Esperienza a dottrina. Roma 1974, pp. 330–342
