Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
It is not easy to understand the Holy Spirit, because he is a Person who is all love, indeed he is Love in person, and for this reason it is not easy to notice his presence. It is like mothers, when they are truly mothers: it can happen that we realize all the good they have done only when, for one reason or another, they are no longer there. They love so much in silence, without making a sound, that sometimes others risk not even seeing them. We do the same with the Holy Spirit: often we do not notice his presence, nor do we invoke him to come into us and support us with his light and his fire. And yet how different life would be if lived more explicitly in contact with him!
If we knew the intimate consolation that the Spirit can give to hearts that seek him, I am sure we would begin to invoke him at every moment, insistently, saying: ‘Come, Holy Spirit!… Come, Holy Spirit!… Come, Holy Spirit!’