5 a.m. Rise; preparation for prayer; short visit to the Most Holy Sacrament. 5½. Prayer. 6½. Messe de communauté. 7. Preparation for general confession, or for that of the annual review, and especially for that of the time spent in the vacation. 8. Breakfast. 8¼. Petites heures. 8¾. Reading, or "direction." 9¼. Visit to the Holy Sacrament. 9½. "Entretien." 10½. "Délassement," during which there may be either reading or "direction." 11. Writing of one's resolutions, and then reading the prescribed chapters of Holy Scripture. 11¾. Private examination. 12. Dinner, followed by the Angelus, and recreation. 1¾. Vespers and Compline; recollecting of oneself, to examine how one has done the morning's exercises. 2¼. Reading, with meditation, of the chapters of the Imitation. 3¼. Visit to the Holy Sacrament. 3½. "Entretien." 4½. Matines and Lauds; writing of resolutions. Then "délassement," as in morning at 10½. 6. Recitation of "chapelet," meditated. 6½. A spiritual lecture. 7. Supper, followed by the Angelus, and recreation. 8½. Prayer; examination of conscience. 9. Bed; making preparation for (the morning's) prayer. The following means are recommended for profiting by the "retreat." 1. From its commencement have your "Règlement particulier" approved by your Director; agree with him on the employment of your time, on the subject of your reading, on the manner of preparing your confession. 2. Read the chapter of the Holy Scripture and of the Imitation marked in the "Manual of Piety," and never omit this reading. 3. Observe silence carefully, save at the time of recreation, and if you are obliged to speak, ask leave to do so. 4. Do not read or write any letter. 5. If you experience dryness, disgust, repugnance, discouraging thoughts, as generally happens in retreats, communicate them immediately to your Director, and follow his advice, as the most assured means of overcoming temptations. 6. If you have already made a general confession at the Seminary, employ the time after mass till breakfast in examining yourself on the manner in which you have done your actions in the Seminary the past year, how you have combated your defects and your ruling passion, and how you have practised the virtues which you proposed to acquire. 7. Study especially inward recollectedness, confidence in our Lord, and in the Most Holy Virgin, serious and deep examination of your conscience, and a great desire "de faire un bon Séminaire."