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Excerpt from Dominus Vobiscum: A Book of Letters It is a common complaint of the Superiors of our Seminaries that they do not receive sufficient co-operation from the pastors of souls to whose surveillance the young Seminarian is entrusted during the greater part of his preparatory course and in the long summer vacation. Unless the good, zealous pastor - and he is the rule - takes an active interest in the young cleric freed from the restraint of the Seminary, and sees that he keeps up the practice of daily Mass, Communion and Visits, much of the Seminary training is nullified. The chief pastors of our flock here in the United States, aware of the withering effects of this vacation atmosphere, are trying to obviate this difficulty by providing villas for Seminarians during the summer months, where the discipline of the Seminary is continued in a somewhat milder form and an opportunity is given the student of catching up the loose ends that may have escaped him in his year's work. Where such a system prevails the conditions are ideal and the lack of vigilance on the part of pastors, whose responsibilities have been removed, is not felt by the authorities of the Seminary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.