“In addition to the novitiate there is the scholasticate. This is an institution for men aspiring to be monastics who have not yet completed their classical studies. They receive the habit with a shorter scapular and no cowl. They recite Prime and Compline from the Divine Office in the choir Read more…
“A novitiate, that is, the institution for the formation of monks, [is] an institution upon which depends the future weal or woe of the monastery. For from the novitiate must arise the young strength and vigor of the Order, which is needed to continue and perfect the labors of the Read more…
“We rise at a quarter to four in the morning and go to bed at nine o’clock in the evening, do not eat any breakfast, have a frugal meal at eleven o’clock, but enough to satisfy our hunger. On Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays we eat meat, the other days, Read more…
Boniface Wimmer, in a letter to young theologian in Germany in 1849: “I have outlined the road you can travel one day in the land of your hopes. Our Order has the task of serving the German Church in America, that is, for the time being, but not exclusively. It Read more…