The structure and government of these fraternities shall be determined in their own rule.

The brothers should take the greatest care to encourage these fraternities, setting up ways of reciprocal collaboration with them, so that the ministry of the Order may become ever more effective in the Church and the world.

The brothers should encourage the growth and spiritual development of these institutes and their members and enter into fraternal collaboration with them, so that their apostolate in the world may be fruitful.

Our superiors, as caring brothers, should give every assistance to the nuns and sisters; and the brothers, in accordance with the arrangements of the superiors, should be willing to help them in the task of doctrinal, sacramental and pastoral ministry.

Therefore the brothers and sisters should collaborate, planning their apostolate together.

The close spiritual communion of the nuns with the brothers is strengthened by a legal bond uniting the nuns to the Order, according to the manner prescribed in their own constitutions.

Right administration requires that all of the brothers, together and singly, accept responsibility for the community’s temporal goods in how they use things. It implies a true relationship with poverty, of which it can be said to be the practical exercise. It is for officials, as faithful and prudent servants, to administer economic affairs with constant care, in the service of charity.

The election of the Master of the Order does not need confirmation.

The election of the Master of the Order shall be conducted on the fifth day after the opening of the chapter (see n. 417, § II, 5) even if all the electors have not assembled.

To be eligible for election as Master of the Order, it is required that a brother be at least thirty-five years old and ten years from first profession, as well as possessing the conditions set out in nn. 443 and 459, § I.