1863 Provincial chapter decrees

Anglo-Hibernian (St. Joseph's) Province 3rd (1863) Provincial Chapter Decrees

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III: Provincial Chapter of the Anglo-Siberian Province 7/3/4/4 1. Decrees and Recommendations After the usual prayers they entered upon some other topics which had been noted for discussion, and the necessity was spoken of, of requiring from novices at the time of their profession, a renunciation in legal form of all claim on the congregation in the event of their leaving it..... A paper was now produced containing a form of contract drawn up by a Catholic lawyer, between a novice and the Superior receiving his profession, in which he renounces every such claim. It was determined that this form should be adopted with some trifling modification to be agreed upon; and not only that novices to be hereafter professed should sign the form, but that all the present professed members of the province, and professed subjects of other provinces, on being transferred to this, should do likewise. 2. The subject of our studies was now brought forward. It was remarked frequently persons accepted as clerical novices, though qualified in other respects, are deficient in their style of reading latin, and likewise English. It was determined that provision should be made for such as these spending some time, at the discretion of the Provincial, in studies calculated to remove this deficiency; and that none should be allowed to proceed to higher studies, unless on examination by the Provincial, or by some one defuted by him, they should be found to have sufficiently improved on this point. 3. It was then represented that in most of the retreats the Platea had not been regularly kept up to the present time, and as information such as the Platea should afford, is called for at Rome, for drawing up the annals of the congregation, the Provincial was requested to appoint one of the fathers to visit the different retreats when this might be the case,

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3. It was then represented that in most of the retreats the Platea had not been regularly kept up to the present time, and as information such as the Platea should afford, is called for at Rome, for drawing up the annals of the congregation, the Provincial was requested to appoint one of the fathers to visit the different retreats when this might be the case, and to collect materials upon which it may be drawn up without delay.

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3. is termed nationalities, as also to the very severe prohibitions in the Holy Gule and Regulations of the least freedom in touching each other's persons.

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