"O my God, I am content to do it; yea, Thy law is within my heart." Ps. xl.
4. Not to seek to please the world.
"If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Gal. i. 10.
5. To practise the Christian virtues, and to aim at the perfection of the ecclesiastical state.
"Ye are the salt of the earth. Ye are the light of the world." Matt. v. 13.
6. The most necessary and the most certain mark is the decision of his director, when he has given him complete knowledge of himself, after having prayed with fervour and purity of heart.
"He that heareth you, heareth me." Luke, x. 16.
III. Spirit of the Seminary.
"If any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." Rom. viii. 9.
The seminarist who wishes to profit by his stay in the seminary, and by its exercises, strives to direct his conduct and actions according to the spirit of our Lord, which is entirely opposed to that of the world. The features of that spirit are—