Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-05-21
PRAYER, WORK ANDPLAY
THE ARDuouS DAILY ROUTINE IN
CATHOLIC COLLEGES.

weeds out from the Priesthood Many |
M-a who Are Not Posses.ed OF avn I'm |
nawwing z.si--Piaia Food and Prayers.
What kind of life Is It In our col
leges? Well, | suppose II 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 nj all the year round.
Half an hour il allowed for dressing,
after which all go down Ia silence to the
church. where morning prayers ara said,
and n meditation is held for half an hour
ON some spiritual subject. Meditation
IL followed immediately by the celebra-
tion OF mass. and altogether about an
hour is spent every morning in spiritual
exercises: Then follows study till break
fast time, st 8.
Breakfast consists OF n bowl OF coffee
or tea, with bread and butter at discre-
ton in the home colleges, while abroad
| one has "A choice between coffee. milk
| and chocolate, but the bread must he
eaten dry. 1t il wonderful what n sub
| stantiai meal can he made of coffee and
dry bread when there Ia nothing else TO
be had. A few minutes for recreation
are allowed after breakfast, then work
goes ON till dinner time, broken only by
| l. -. - ~
PLAIN FARR
Dinner, which is eaten at l, Is al
ways good. substantial meal, and
ample Justice is done 10 It after the
rather thin breakfast. No study is al
lowed during the hour and half fol-
lowing dinner. All who are we'll enough
must join in the public games, which
, for the most part are played with great
spirit and keenly euj"y"'l
At 3 o'clock the studies commences
, again, and class and lecture or prepare
tion for them. with half an hours res
ut S. go ON until : or half past, whei
, thirty minutes are given 10 prayer ans
the reading of the life of some saint
After the prayers all go to the reflector!
a for supper. which. like dinner, Is eater
a In silence. broken only by the voice o
!, the reader, who reads aloud some bio
: graphical or historical work.
!, After supper there is recreation, an
|, ut foreign colleges this Is always tn
i favorite hour OF the day. And yer
pleasant Ii is TO hear the fresh youn
. voices and merry hearted laughter echo
, ing along the college cloisters.
II Ats the big bell rings out again fc
the last time that day. and at it's fir,
!. peal the talk and laugh are hushed. tn
a. groups break up, all-professors an
"a church students alike-make their wa
h. 10 the church for night prayers. Praye
"a over the points for the next morning
10 meditations are read out, and after II
:, singing Of hymn all retire to we
:. earned rest, which in most cases Is on
In too soon disturbed by the noisy clangiI
L. of the great bell Ia the early morning.
II THE WORK II HARD.
IA OF course. every day il not stut
Al day. Sunday Is always, more or less,
N day Of rest. and at least one afterno'
-. every week il devoted To outdoor reel
~ alton.
i Yet, in spite Of occasional play day
Al ~ tneN ara cAliel, anu lne nOluhys hWl
n. year. the life is hard enough. II mu
necessarily 30 on for some dozen Yea
=, before the student H. called mp for orr
40 nation. The life Of Catholic priest
10 indeed one Ia which many are calle
Ias but few are chosen A great number
"A those who 20 to college. at the ago
i. fourteen or fifteen, with the intention
!, becoming priests. do not reach the 20
IL of ordination.
"a In some cases health breaks dow
~. many grow weary Of the routine a
,Iv strict discipline Of the life. Others 4
hy cover that they have no calling for :
~ ecclesiastical state, and 20 ont into
world TO begin life afresh. So, fro
one cause OF another, the student I'm
that by the time he j. ready for on
nation he has lost the company of ma
=. who stood by his side when he enter
:. college.
- OF six who went to college sol
N seventeen years ago with the press
!, writer, one is dead. one is practicing
a doctor in the United States, third
manager of bank in the north Of III
land, another is serving rs n mount
~. policeman in South Africa. and only /
~ are priests. 4 Catholic Priest in l.,
-. don Tit Bite.