Renewing and supporting monasteries

30. Federations can effectively help to give new vigour to monasteries, by revitalizing their vocational drive on the basis of the essential points of their spirituality, in the wholly contemplative dimension of their way of life, and by fostering the fervent observance of the rule and the Constitutions.

Monasteries belonging to a Federation are obliged to help one another, including, when truly necessary and avoiding instability, by means of the exchange of nuns. (⁹²)

Nevertheless, it belongs to each community to decide whether to make a request and how to answer a request, in accordance with its possibilities.

Monasteries which are no longer able to guarantee a regular life, or find themselves in particularly difficult circumstances, can appeal to the President and her Council in order to find a suitable solution.

In the case of a community which is no longer in a position to act in a free, autonomous and responsible way, the President will notify the Diocesan Bishop and the regular Superior where there is one, and submit the case to the Holy See. (⁹³)