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  1. It pertains principally to the prior provincial:
    1. to see to it that when planning according to n. 107 below, adequate attention is given to the needs of the intellectual life and the doctrinal apostolate, observing what is said in n. 226
      about the formation of the brothers;
    2. to cooperate with the Master of the Order in promoting the doctrinal mission of the Order;
    3. to promote collaboration between the convents and brothers of the province and with other provinces, too, especially neighbouring ones;
    4. to foster the participation of the brothers in study sessions suited to their duties or ministry;
    5. to ensure during the canonical visitation that what is prescribed regarding study is properly observed, especially the state of libraries;
    6. to determine annually with his council the amount of money needed for the promotion of studies.
  2. He is to be helped in this task by the province’s commission for the intellectual life. The following are members of the commission: the regent of studies who is the president, the
    moderator of the centre of institutional studies, the promoter of ongoing formation, and others who are elected according to the statute of the province.
    It is the duty of this commission, under the authority of the prior provincial:
    1. to give prior advice on matters of importance pertaining to studies;
    2. to propose the Ratio Studiorum Particularis of the province, and to apply it;
    3. to coordinate the activities of the province’s centres of studies;
    4. to report each year in the provincial council on the intellectual life of the province.
  3. He shall be helped also by the provincial promoter of ongoing formation, whom the chapter shall appoint and determine his function and scope.
  4. A similar method of promoting studies shall be established in the statutes of the province’s vicariates.
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