How does a Seminarian keep such a strict rule of silence?
It is a question of recollection. The principal goal of the Seminary is to make Seminarians into men of God. This is only possible if they are to maintain a continual spirit of prayer. Silence is the test of this. A seminarian who does not love the silence is not recollected as he ought to be, and does not belong in the Seminary. Seminarians who are recollected treasure the silence as the safeguard of their interior life of prayer, as well as of their intellectual life of serious thought on the major issues of our Faith.
