Constitutions and Directory of the Marian Fathers

directs the students in all things that pertain to discipline, health, fulfillment of religious duties, the entire common life, and spiritual formation. The duty of the prefect of students ordinarily also comprises helping the students in accomplishing their studies. In small houses, this task may be joined to the office of the local Superior. (C 203) CM 114-115 Other Formators 146When necessary, especially where the Congregation has its own institute of studies, other formators, namely, a Rector and a Prefect of Studies, as well as qualified teachers, are to be appointed in a manner determined by the Provincial Statutes. (C 203) RF 133 Spiritual Director 147The competent Major Superior, with the consent of his Council, should appoint, at least for the major houses of studies, a spiritual director, who, along with instructions and exhortations given in common, should provide assistance to individual students in the pursuit of perfection, strictly in the internal forum, both by sacramental means as well as by addressing matters of conscience. (C 203) RF 136; CM 115 Report on Students 148 Each year, the prefect of students is to draw up a written report about the character, conduct, and progress in studies of each of the students and send it to the competent Major Superior. (C 203) CM 118 Vigilance of Major Superiors 149Let the Major Superiors strive in a particular manner to visit personally the institutes and houses of studies; watch carefully over the instruction, whether academic or ecclesiastical, which is imparted to the students; and form for Formation 223

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