_ 178 _ light. When this hour is over, we prepare for mass, which I say every day. Then the bell rings for class, where the postulants remain till eleven o’clock. Towards the end of lunch and afterwards, they make a solitary examination of conscience. After this they get ready for school, where they remain until four o’ clock. The bell rings for mass(A) and later for the litanies that we recite every night. Then the bell rings to assemble for meditation which lasts one hour. This is followed by examinations of conscience, and afterwards they get ready to sleep. We scourge ourselves on behalf of the church(B), because the litanies are for the company and its benefactors. Every Sunday and feastday, at night, we all take recreation together and have an hour to discuss spiritual matters. I detect great enthusiasm in all of them. Praise be to Christ, they are very attached to the cross and to mortification. Nor am I aware of anything that better sustains us than the desire to suffer for Christ and the great consolation that we feel each day in having death (A) This “rings for mass” is evidently misplaced, but it is to be found in the copies of the BAL and the Biminel. (B) Biminel: “We have scourging for the church and its administration every Thursday…”
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