Ordination

Conditions and obligations are to be recorded in writing in duplicate: one copy is to be preserved in the archives of the province and the other in the convent concerned.

1. Only moral juridical persons in the Order and not individual brothers are permitted, with the consent of their respective councils, to accept pious foundations or other gifts which involve prolonged and burdensome obligations.
2. Furthermore, every acceptance of a burdensome obligation requires the consent of the provincial council, and those which impose a prolonged obligation ought not to be accepted easily.

Stipends for Masses which cannot be celebrated in due time by the fathers priests of a convent must be sent to the prior provincial, and a surplus in the province must be sent to the Master of the Order.

The major sacristan must keep Mass stipends in a separate account. Only when the Masses have been celebrated may the money be transferred to the common account. Every month the sacristan must present a report to the conventual council on the Masses celebrated and to be celebrated.

The brothers must give the Mass stipends they have received to the major sacristan, who will record them accurately in a special book, indicating when they were received, their number, the intentions and conditions, the amounts offered, and the dates on which the Masses were celebrated.

It is the duty of a general chapter to determine the limit to the expenditure which the Master of the Order may authorise without his council.

Major projects which are subsidised by outsiders and thus require no outlay by the Order do, however, need the required consent in accordance with n. 590 and the previous article.

It is the duty of a provincial chapter to determine the limit to what may be spent by the superior of a convent on his own, or with his council; it must also determine the limit to what the prior provincial without his council may spend or allow someone else to spend.

What has been said about constructing buildings holds true also, with appropriate modifications, for restoration work and extensive repairs as well as for other matters of major importance.

1. No building may be constructed unless the considered opinion of experts on the location and other essentials has already been obtained, nor before a plan of the whole building, together with an estimate of the cost, has been approved by the provincial council after consultation with the economic council. Furthermore, the building should be so constructed that its ordinary maintenance will not be excessively expensive.
2. Buildings must be constructed in conformity to what has been approved by the provincial council, and no one is permitted on his own authority to deviate from it.