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  The year of novitiate ought to have this goal [propositum] under the discipline of a Teacher, that the soul of the pupil [alumni] be formed [informetur] by the study of the Rule and Constitutions, by pious meditations and assiduous prayer, by thoroughly learning those things which pertain to the vows and virtues, by opportune exercises to exstirpate the seeds of vices by the root, to pasture together [compescendos] the movements of the spirit, to acquire the virtues.  Moreover lay members [conversi] are to be diligently instructed [institutantur] in Christian Doctrine, with a special conference [collatione] held for them at least once a week (can. 565 § 1 and 2).