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Excerpt from Minor Orders The purpose of seminaries being to prepare ecclesiastics for ordinations, it would seem that the most common topics of a seminarian's meditations should be such interesting, and to him, vitally important subjects as the nature of the Orders he is to receive, the powers which they confer, the virtues which they require, the duties which they impose, the graces to which they entitle their recipient and the fruits which they ought to produce. What is more suited to touch his heart, to make him feel the necessity of perfection, to give him a taste for piety and a love for prayer! As a matter of fact, however, ordinands seldom meditate on these topics. The reason is that most of them, in their mental prayer, confine themselves to the subjects proposed to the community; subjects which must be adapted to the general needs of all and not to the special requirements of the smaller number who are preparing for the reception of some particular order. It was to meet these special requirements that this book was written. 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.