Magdalene draws on the "lnspice" to explain the very spirit of the Institute. It is not simply a question of an external, legalistic restructuring but one that goes right to the heart of the Institute. The Institute's spirit may be described in one, single adjective - "most generous" - because it was with a most generous love that Our Lord loved us from the crass. But it is an ardent apostolic zeal, above all, that she draws from Christ Crucified. A true missionary spirit that finds a significant echo in the parresio, as in the true spirit of the Church in the Acts of the Apostles. It is a mystical experience that is continually being renewed in her life and is the continual conclusion to her prayers.

Every time Magdalene heard the Gospel invitation "Euntes in unlversum niundum"'[cf: Mark16:14-20] during Mass, she was moved to the point of tears, filled with joy and felt urged towards mission. (Memoirs Chapter 1:28-29). It is not a passing experience but one that is continually renewed. "Without knowing why, I was deeply moved and filled with consolation. Although I do not cry easily, my eyes would fill with tears".

Magdalene's characteristic feature is her apostolic zeal, the apostolic Parresia. Responding to a letter from the Marquis Luigi of Canossa (later to become Bishop of Verona and a cardinal) on 13th January 1836, Antonio Rosmini wrote, "in her zeal, she was most ingenious in finding ever new means of glorifying God and she embraced the whole world: she burned for the health of souls and often said to me that oil countries were the some to her and that she would have gone to the ends of the earth to do good".

He was struck, above all, by Canossa's zeal that "embraced the whole world".

Her Institute must be characterized by this apostolic zeal: for this reason she cannot accept life in on enclosed order.