Catholic novitiate

Catholic novitiate

A novice in Catholic law and tradition, is a "prospective" member of a religious order 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 the year 1202 AD, 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, [cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11144a.htm|title=Novice|work=Catholic Encyclopedia] depending on the aptitude of the candidate.

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