These words of Jesus prepare the disciples for the physical absence of their Lord, for the experience of a post-Easter faith, which will have passed through death. It is good for us, too, to be strengthened by the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Spirit is strength, it is life, it is companionship in mission and in trials. When Jeanne de Lestonnac tears up her spiritual writings, when she keeps obedient silence before the Cardinal, when she is buried without her sisters striving for her canonization, and this does not come up until more than 300 years later, it is because Jeanne has entrusted her work to the Spirit. She knows that “being New Women” is a new form of presence in the Church, enlisted among the great women of salvation history, those who, like Mary, are covered by the shadow of the Holy Spirit.