Silence is broken only for an hour after dinner and another hour after supper.

About an hour of out-door exercise is taken every day, and a long walk once a week and on feast-days.

All of Thursday in each week and the more important feasts of the year are days of recreation, when silence need not be observed during the greater part of the day, and much relaxation is otherwise allowed.

All Fridays are days of total silence and special devotion.

The letter fails to mention the discipline, or flagellation, which was taken twice a week.
He ends thus: "The time of the novitiate is one year, and its object is to prove our vocation, and form the religious character--the heart.