Constitutions and Directory of the Marian Fathers

PART III COMMON LIFE CHAPTER I COMMON LIFE IN GENERAL Contact with Those Living Outside the Community 58A confrere who lives outside the community for some time, with the permission of his Superiors, is bound to observe the laws of the Congregation as much as possible and to render to his own Superior an account of this observance, as well as of his actions and their outcome. The Superior, on his part, should, either personally or through another, visit him and, by means of letters, instruct and direct him. (C 96) CM 281 Small Communities 59In order that members of small communities may find mutual assistance in fostering their spiritual and intellectual lives and that they may be able to cooperate more closely in the apostolate and be rescued from the dangers that might arise from loneliness, let there be set up among them, with the help of the Superiors, some kind of common life by means of frequent meetings and other suitable aids according to the different personal and pastoral needs. (C 96) PO 8 CHAPTER II FRATERNAL CHARITY AND CARE OF THE SICK Mutual Love 60Let them hold true friendship in great esteem and cultivate it among themselves; they should take care, however, lest they exclude certain confreres from camaraderie, and let them

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