It is customary for students who have been attending colleges
and academies to return home during the summer vacation or
during the Christmas or Easter holidays, when they will recount
to their father their trials and triumphs in the field of
literature, and express to him their gratitude for the education
they receive. They will gladly listen to his counsel, and will
sit once more with joy at the family table.
We all are, or we ought to be, pupils of Christ, preparing
ourselves during this life of probation to receive a
diploma of sanctity which will admit us to the kingdom of
heaven.--CARDINAL GIBBONS.
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