in observing discipline, since young men grow in maturity and responsibility when trust is shown to them and when an appropriate freedom is permitted. (C 209) GE 1; OT 11 CHAPTER VII FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS BROTHERS Post-Novitiate Formation 159Religious brothers are not to be destined immediately after the novitiate to fulfill more important and burdensome duties and offices in or outside of the Congregation, but they should be given training, both spiritual and doctrinal as well as professional and apostolic, according to each one’s intellectual endowment and talent, in the appropriate houses of the Congregation or outside the Congregation. The time and manner of this formation is to be determined by the Provincial Statutes. (C 215) PC 18 Director of Religious Brothers 160Each Province should have a director of religious brothers, appointed in the same way as the prefect of students, endowed with good qualities, who is to direct the special formation and education of the religious brothers for a period of at least three years after their first profession. (C 215) CHAPTER VIII ONGOING FORMATION Monthly Meetings 161 Confreres should get together once a month to consider and resolve various problems pertaining to theology, liturgy, and other areas of ecclesiastical knowledge. In meetings of this kind, they should consider opinions and principal trends in human society, as well as matters of greater importance presented by mass media, more significant new books, needs, Directory—Part V 226
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