[7] _Preparation for Death_, Father Coffin's Translation, p. xv. [8] An excellent explanation of the Jesuit and the Sulpician systems can be found in Father Faber's _Growth in Holiness_, chapter xv. [9] Growth, etc., p. 270. [10] Preparation for Death, Father Coffin's Translation, p. xvi. [11] Thus, for example, the _Confiteor_ in Prime and Compline were given in the form used in choir, with no reference to how it was to be said in private recitation. This has now been supplied. And so on in other instances. Even now the choir rubrics are often given without comment-- as, for example, that which prescribes the _Preces_ at Prime to be said in Lent, "flexis genibus," which of course does not refer to private recitation. CONFERENCE VII THE PRIEST'S PASTORAL WORK IT has sometimes been a matter of comment that in the ordination of a priest the Church seems to act in a different manner from what she does in the consecration of a Bishop. In the latter case, a man has to wait till there is a vacancy and his work is required for the good of the Church: in the former case, he offers himself for ordination, and it is not until after he is ordained that a suitable vacancy is sought where he is asked to work. In some respects this follows inevitably from the nature of the case; for a candidate for the Bishopric can go on working as a priest until his services are called for in the Episcopate. In some instances indeed that time never comes, and one who is apparently "Episcopabilis" never gets consecrated at all. In the case of a priest it is manifestly impossible to have candidates for Holy Orders waiting to be called to the ministry, and remaining laymen till that time comes. And indeed if it were otherwise possible, the length of time necessary to prepare for the priesthood necessitates the candidate being chosen some years before the need arises; while, on the other hand, there are so many openings where a priest's work is called for that one can usually be found for a newly ordained priest without waiting, and indeed the tendency is rather for there to be such need that a man has to be ordained before his time.