Ordination

Reports of the chapter and council votes are to be sent to the prior provincial by the prior. Personal and academic reports on each candidate are to be sent to him by the master. And where students are concerned, the moderator of the centre for institutional studies shall send his report And if the regent deals with students, a report should be sent to the provincial.

Solemnly professed brothers assigned, for reasons of study, to a convent outside their own province, do not have a voice in the chapter when it considers admitting brothers from other provinces to profession. Solemnly professed brothers assigned to a convent from another province for reasons of study only have a voice in the chapter when it is a question of admission to profession of brothers from their own province; They may be consulted, however, before the vote of the chapter and council when there is question of professing students student brothers who are living there with them but belong to other provinces.

Simple (temporary) vows cease:

1. when the time for which they were made or renewed has elapsed;
2. by an indult to leave the Order, granted by the Master of the Order with the consent of his council (see CCL 688)
3. by dismissal from the Order according to common law (CCL, nn. 694-704).

1. Renewal of profession is to take place on the day which marks the end of the period for which profession was made. (see Appendix n. 9).
2. For a good reason, the prior provincial has the faculty to permit the renewal of temporary profession to be anticipated but by not more than a month.

Only his own prior provincial may validly admit a brother to renew simple profession, having obtained the consultative vote of the chapter and council of the brother’s convent of assignation. (CCL, nn. 656, 657).

1. At the end of the first three years in simple vows, brothers may, at their own request or the superior’s suggestion, renew simple profession, but not beyond another three years; in which case vows must be renewed each year. The provincial chapter can decide, however, that simple profession will ordinarily be extended after the first three-year period.
2. Those in perpetual or solemn vows who transfer to the Order from another religious institute with the permission of the Master of the Order and their own superior general, and with the consent of their council, cannot make solemn profession until three years have elapsed and only if a novitiate has been completed. (CCL, n. 684, §§1-2).

A prior provincial can reject a novice approved by both chapter and council, but he cannot accept a novice rejected by either one of them. If the novice’s own prior provincial rejects him, the prior provincial of the province in whose convent the novitiate has been made can, with the consent of
his council, accept the novice as a son of his province if he freely and expressly consents in writing.

In convents and houses where, in accordance with n. 139-bis and n. 333, the council is not distinct from the chapter, another vote is taken by the provincial council; in vicariates, it is taken by the vicariate council.

1. During the two months preceding simple profession and the six months prior to solemn profession, a brother shall be examined, and the declarations contained in the appendix shall be made to him. (see Appendix n. 5).
2. As to the subject matter of the examination, he should be questioned about the obligations of our profession as well as the human and spiritual motives drawing him to consecrate his life to God through profession in the Order.
3. With the exceptions mentioned in n. 207, the convent where the brother made his novitiate, or where he is actually assigned, has the right to conduct the examination. The examiners are the brothers designated by the prior provincial, or by the prior with his council, according to the statute of the province. The examination, however, may take place outside the convent of novitiate or of assignation.

One copy of each book published shall be sent to the archives of the Order and another to the archives of the province.