Catholic novitiate

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A novice in Catholic law and tradition, is a prospective member of a religious institute who is being tried and being proven for suitability of admission to a religious order of brothers, sisters or monks.

Novices are not admitted to vows until they have successfully completed the prescribed period of training and proving, called the novitiate. In the Middle Ages novices typically would have dormitories in separate areas within a monastery; an early Cistercian monastery, Royal Monastery of Our Lady of the Wheel, founded in 1202, has this chamber clearly visible today.

Earlier, different orders followed their own rules governing the length and conditions of the novitiate. However, in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Council of Trent legislated the length and conditions by which anyone aspiring to become a monk is obliged to be a novice; the usual period is for at least one year,^[1] depending on the aptitude of the candidate.

References

↑ "Novice". Catholic Encyclopedia.

v t e Consecrated Life in the Catholic Church

Types	Canons Regular Clerks Regular Consecrated virgin Diocesan priest Hermit Religious institute Orders Monastic Cenobitic Mendicant order Enclosed Second Order Congregations) Secular institute Society of apostolic life

Vows	Evangelical counsels Poverty Chastity Obedience Profession Solemn vow Vow of silence

Monastery	Abbey Cloister Convent Hermitage Priory Refectory List

Prayer	Contemplation Liturgy of the Hours Mass Meditation Mysticism Rosary

Habit	Clerical clothing Coif Cornette Scapular Vestment

Members	Abbot Abbess Brother Master of novices Monk Novice Nun Oblate Postulant Provincial superior Prior Superior general

Other	Asceticism Tonsure Vocational discernment

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