Note 962 — Chapter II · THE TREATMENT OF PENITENTS IN DIFFERENT EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Richard F. (Richard Frederick) Clarke translation
Concerning purity of heart, compare § 69. “De divina vocatione hic imprimis nota, debere positiva probatione constare de vitæ probitate tum Superiori, ut ad Ordines, maxime sacros, admittere possit, tum ipsi candidato, ut sacrum ordinem suscipere sibi liceat.”— Lehmkuhl, l. c. And very justly Aertnys writes (Instr. pract. l. c. n. 135 fin.): Nisi juvenes innocentiam servent, dum in Seminario ad sacerdotales virtutes efformantur, vix spes est fore, ut illam servent in Sacerdotio constituti. Unde turpiter seipsos illi decipiunt, qui arbitrantur, se in Sacerdotii gradu positos emendaturos esse vitia, in quibus laici vel clerici sorduerunt.