The Updating of Religious Formation :

Gambari, Elio.

The Updating of Religious Formation : Text and Commentary on Instruction on the Renewal of Religious Formation / Elio Gambari. - Boston : St.Paul Book and Media ; 1969. - 147 p. ;

includes index and biblioraphy

Commentary on the Instruction Presentation of the Instruction Occasion of the Instruction ........................... 43 Importance of the document ........................ 45 Nature of the Instruction .............................. 46 Experiments ¿Aim of the Instruction ............ 47 Object of the Instruction (3) ........................ 48 Force of the Instruction .............................. 49 Interpretation and application ..................... 51 Implementation .......................................... 52 Principles and guidelines followed Principles basic to the Instruction ............... 53 Principles regarding religious life (Intro. 9; 2-3) Principles regarding formation (4-7) ............ 54 Gradualness and extension (4): progressive development ............ 55 Correspondence between formation and character of the Institute and unity of life as a goal (5) Unity and specificity (5-6) ..................... 57 Continuation and prolongation of forma¿tion (6,7) ....................... 57 Initiation or apprenticeship as part of for¿mation ...................... 57 fPrinciples by which to evaluate the replac¿ing of temporary vows by some other com¿mitment ) The guidelines followed in the normative part 58 General character .................................... 58 Flexibility of legislation ........................... 59 Confidence ............................................. 59 Subsidiarity and the delegation of powers ... 60 Freedom and responsibility ..................... 60 Special norms STAGES OF FORMATION (4-6; 10, I, II)...63 Gradualness ............64 Range .........................................................64 Progressive development ...........................64 POSTULANCY (4; 11-12) ..........................64 Structure ...................................................64 Recourse to psychology .............................. Institutes with obligatory postulancy ............68 Need and purpose .......................................6? Previous preparation in Institutes without obli¿ gatory postulancy (10) ............................... Norms for obligatory postulancies (12, 1) ...... Responding to the need for aggiornamento ... Studies and novitiate (15, IV; 29) .................. 103 A single novitiate with various categories of members of an Institute (27) ..................... 105 Structure of novitiate life .............................. 106 The Novice`s habit (33) .............................. 112 Place of the first profession (20) .................. 113 PREPARATION FOR PERPETUAL PRO¿FESSION (6-7; 37-38) Motive and goal .......................................... 113 The possibility of substituting commitments of another type for temporary vows Who is to decide (34, I) .............................. 120 Extension of die decision (34) ..................... 120 Commitment other than the vows .................. 122 Duration of the period of temporary vows or bonds (6, 2; 37, I) ............... 127 Cessation of vows or commitment and interrup¿tion of the period (38) .......... Immediate preparation for perpetual profession (35,11) ............. 131 Temporary bonds and Holy Orders (37, II) ... 132 Interest in the juniorate .............................. 132 Application of the special norms Relationship with the existing Code (Section III, I) ............... 134 Character of the faculties and impossibility of delegation (II) .................. Who is meant by Superior General (III) ......... 136 Vicar of the Superior General (IV) ............... 137 The Instruction and nuns dedicated exclusively to the contemplative life (V) Power of the General Council if the General Chapter has already been held (VI) Experimental character of the norms (VII)...... 139



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