15. Inter-institute collaboration in the novitiate phase is one of the “complementary services”. Not included under the category of collaboration is the creation of so-called “inter-congregational novitiates”, which would have male and female novices living in the same community. Indeed, such an arrangement does not correspond to the proper character of the beginning of religious life, which ought to introduce the novice to what characterizes the patrimony of every institute. Consequently, every institute should have its own novitiate.