CHAPTER VI
: THE SEPARATION OF MEMBERS FROM THE INSTITUTE
ARTICLE 1:
TRANSFER TO ANOTHER INSTITUTE
Can.
684 §1 Perpetually professed members cannot transfer from their own religious
institute to another, except by permission of the supreme Moderators of both
institutes, given with the consent of their respective councils.
§2 On
completion of a probationary period of at least three years, the member can be
admitted to perpetual profession in the new institute. A member who refuses to
make this profession, or is not admitted to do so by the competent Superiors,
is to return to the original institute, unless an indult of secularisation has
been obtained.
§3 For a
religious to transfer from one autonomous monastery to another monastery of the
same institute, federation or confederation, the consent of the major Superior
of both monasteries and of the chapter of the receiving monastery is required and
is sufficient, unless the institute's own law has established further
conditions. A new profession is not required.
§4 The
institute's own law is to determine the time and manner of the probation which
must precede the member's profession in the new institute.
§5 To
transfer to a secular institute or to a society of apostolic life, or to
transfer from these to a religious institute, the permission of the Holy See is
required and its instructions are to be followed.
Can.
685 §1 Until profession is made in the new institute, the rights and
obligations of the member in the previous institute are suspended, but the vows
remain. From the beginning of probation, the member is bound to observe the
laws of the new institute.
§2 By
profession in the new institute the member is incorporated into it, and the
earlier vows, rights and obligations cease.
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