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The People of God » Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life » Institutes of Consecrated Life » Religious Institutes » The admission of candidates and the formation of members » The novitiate and the formation of novices
Canon 648. §1 For validity, the novitiate must comprise twelve months spent in the novitiate community, without prejudice to the provision of can. 647 §3.

§2 To complete the formation of the novices, the constitutions can prescribe, in addition to the time mentioned in §1, one or more periods of apostolic activity, to be performed outside the novitiate community.

§3 The novitiate is not to be extended beyond two years.

§1. Novitiatus, ut validus sit, duodecim menses in ipsa novitiatus communitate peragendos complecti debet, firmo praescripto can. 647, §3.

§2. Ad novitiorum institutionem perficiendam, constitutiones, praeter tempus de quo in §1, unum vel plura exercitationis apostolicae tempora extra novitiatus communitatem peragenda statuere possunt.

§3. Novitiatus ultra biennium ne extendatur.
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