Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-11-05
PRAYER, WORK ANDPLAY
THE ARDUOUS DAILY ROUTINE IN
CATHOLIC COLLEGES.

| Weeds Out from dc Priesthood Many
Men Who Are Not Vos,csSeCI of an I'm
tagging ZeaI-PIain FooG and Prayers.
What kind of life is It IN our col
Ieges? Well, suppose it is much the
same as the life in colleges which are
not ecclesiastical. Of course, church
students. have many more prayers to say,
and are expected to observe the rules
with more fidelity than other students.
They rise early-in foreign colleges at
in winter and in summer-in most
English colleges at all the year round.
Half an hour is allowed for dressing,
after which ali go down in silence to the
church, where morning prayers are said,
and a meditation is held for half an hour
on some spiritual subject. Meditation
is followed Immediately by the celebra-
ton of mass, and altogether about an
hour is spent every morning in spiritual
exercises. Then follows study till break
fast time, at s.
Breakfast consists of bowl of coffee
or tea, with bread and butter at discre-
ton in the home colleges, while abroad
one has choice between coffee, milk
and chocolate, but the bread must be
eaten dry. 1t is wonderful what sub
stantial meal can be made of coffee and
dry bread when there is nothing else to
be had. a few minutes for recreation
are allowed after breakfast, then work
| goes on till dinner time, broken only by
half an hours recreation at ii o'clock.
PLAIN FARE.
Dinner, which is eaten at l, is al
ways a good, substantial meal, and
ample justice is done to it after the
rather thin breakfast. No study is al
lowed during the hour and half fol-
lowing dinner. All who are well enough
must join in the public games, which
for the most part are played with great
J spirit and keculv enjoved.
At o'clock the STUDS coa,'0e.la=
again, and class and lecture or p.epaI,.-
ton for thcm, with half ~ Eonr.., ret
at 8, so on until : @. Lalf I,;ls; wEeI.
thirty minutes are given To pc;yyc and
the reading of TIL lie of some saint.
After the prayers aI - 20 The refectory
for supper, which, Ike dinner, is eaten
/ III S4lSIISG. LApACh O---t ~ NC WIZ u
the reader, who reads ;.l3,,l some bio
graphical or historical WORK
After supper thee is recreation, AMI
at foreign colleges tl:;s s ;lr-&ys -ile
favorite hour of tn !..y. and very
pleasant it is to hea. le fresh yoQu-
voices and merry hear laughter echo
ing along the college cll's.-.s.
4 1,A hill
the last time that day, and at its first
peal the talk and laugh are hushed, the
| groups break up, aIl-professors ard
church students alike-make their way
to the church for night prayers. Prayers
over the points for the next mornings
meditations are read out, and after the
singing Of hymn all retire to a well
earned rest. which in most cases is only
too soon disturbed by the noisy changing
of the great bell in the early morning.
THE WORK IS HARD.
OF course, every day is not a study
day. Sunday is always, more or less,
day of rest, and at least one afternoon
every week is devoted to outdoor recre-
alton.
Yet, in spite of occasional play days,
as they are called, and the holidays twice
year, the life is hard enough 1t must
necessarily go on for some dozen Years
before the student is called up for ordi-
nation. The life of Catholic priest is
indeed one to which many are called,
but few are chosen. A great number of
those who go to college. at the age of
fourteen or fifteen, with sle intention of
becoming priests, do not reach the goal
of ordination.
In some cases health breaks down,
many grow weary of the routine and |
strict discipline of the life. others dis
cover that they have no calling for the
ecclesiastical state, and 70 out into the
world to begin life afreSh. So, from
one cause or another, the student fudS
that by the time he is ready for ordi-
nation he has lost tie company of Hlany
who stood by his side when he entered
college.
OF six VIII? went to college some
seventeen years ago with the present
writer, one is dead, one is practicing us
4 doctor in the United States, a third is
manager of bank in the north of Eng
land, another is serving as mounted
policeman in South Africa, and only two
are priests-A Catholic Priest in Lon
don Tit-Bits.
No Animals in the Dry Parts of Caves.
No animals whatever are found in the
dry ,,n,.+s of p.,-oc Drr,1nasS IN. :, cav