“The Séminaire de Québec was established chiefly to advance the Kingdom of God in the Church of Canada, by providing a solid and supernatural ecclesiastical formation for the young priests who appear worthy candidates for the service of God […]

“Priests of the Seminary, its officers, directors, associates and auxiliaries, shall labour zealously in all the works of the Seminary, and remember that they shall be successful only through fervent practice of the ecclesiastical virtues. Without these virtues, priests cannot be true educators. The priests of the Seminary will therefore strive to acquire them, by the grace of Jesus Christ, giving themselves faithfully to prayer, private devotions and the exercises practised communally in the Seminary, to wit, personal examen of conscience before the midday meal, rosary and spiritual reading before the evening meal, and evening prayer following recess. These community exercises, faithfully observed, will maintain an ordered common life in the Seminary and will protect individual virtue. Among the Christian and sacerdotal virtues necessary for a priest of the Seminary are charity, a detachment from worldliness, a renunciation of self, and the precious virtue of chastity.”