Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... discipline of the house. The novice is subject to the master and to the superiors of the Order and must obey them (561). The novice-master has the serious responsibility of instructing the novices zealously in the practices of the religious life according to the constitutions and the rules of Canon 565 (562). During the year of the novitiate the master of novices reports the conduct of the individual novices to the Chapter or to the major superior, as the constitutions direct (563). As far as possible the novitiate must be separated from that part of the house occupied by the professed members, and, without a special reason and the permission of the superior or the novice-master, they shall have no communication with the professed, nor they with the novices. Lay-novices shall have a special place assigned to them (564). The special object of the year's novitiate should be, under the direction of the master of novices, to form the minds of the novices, by the study of the rule and constitutions, by meditation and assiduous prayer, to learn what pertains to the vows and what to the virtues of the religious life, and how to extirpate the very seed of vice, how to curb the wandering of the mind, and how to acquire virtue by suitable practice. Laynovices should, besides, be thoroughly instructed in Christian doctrine. For this reason at least one special instruction should be given them every week (565). The master of novices and the sub-master shall not hear the confessions of their novices, dwelling with them in the same house, excepting in particular cases where the novices for grave and urgent reasons request it (891). 326. Master, Spiritual. During the entire course of studies the religious shall be under the special care of a prefect or...
