Such was the burden of all of his letters home from both St.Trond and Wittem.

We have ten written from the novitiate.

An exception must be made as to one which describes in detail the daily order of life in the novitiate.

It is addressed to his mother.
He tells her that the first bell rings at half-past four in the morning and the last at half-past nine at night.

The time is divided between various common and private devotional exercises, including Mass, meditations, recitation of the office in common, study of the rule of the order, spiritual conferences, spiritual reading, and the like.