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  1. Our missionaries should, as far as possible, establish regular life and should do their best to live a full community life.
  2. To this end, a convent should be established as soon as possible in which Dominican life would find expression in harmony with the needs, ethos and special gifts of the people being evangelised, so that it would appear truly indigenous, and not at all alien in their own land. The seeds of ascetical and contemplative traditions have often been sown by God in ancient cultures, even before the preaching of the gospel, and these should be adopted to the extent that they fit in with Dominican life.
  3. Dominican vocations should be promoted as soon as possible so that the Order can take lasting root, leading to the erection of an indigenous province.
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19681002