Start Date
19681002
The Electors and Those Eligible
457
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constitutionRevision history
- Confirmed ACG 1968 River Forest n.
To have active voice in the election of a prior, besides the conditions mentioned in nn. 439 and 440 and excepting n. 458, one must be directly assigned to the convent where the election is to take place.
458
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ordinationRevision history
- Confirmed ACG 1968 River Forest n.
- Brothers who by reason of their work have habitual residence outside the convent of their assignment do not have voting rights in the election of a prior except after their definitive return. (See Appendix 19)
- For other cases of lengthy absence or notable distance of the brothers from the convent of their assignment, the provincial chapter shall determine the conditions under which those brothers may take part in the election of a prior (see n. 336.)
459
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constitutionRevision history
- Confirmed ACG 1968 River Forest n.
- To be elected a conventual prior a brother must be prudent, charitable, and zealous for regular observance and the apostolate.
- Besides the conditions mentioned in n. 443, for an election to be valid it is required:
- that he has not been prior in that convent for the two successive three-year terms immediately preceding the election;
- that he does not actually exercise the office of visitator general, regent of studies, moderator of the centre of institutional studies, master of novices or of student brothers.
460
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constitutionRevision history
- Confirmed ACG 1968 River Forest n.
- If a brother is ineligible because of any of the impediments listed in n. 459, § II, the voters may postulate him from the competent superior – in other words, from the person who can confirm the election.
- A brother thus postulated and instituted, having accepted the office and taken possession of it, is thereby relieved of any incompatible office unless he has been dispensed by the Master of the Order.