PERFECTAE CARITATIS: No.20-25 Novice Jobin Joseph thayyil

The 21^st number says  that if some communities and monasteries which the holy see after consulting the interesting local ordinaries will judge not to posses reasonable hope for further development they have to combine with other more flourishing communities and monasteries whose scope and spirit are similar.

No. 22 .says about the independent institutes and monasteries. They should form federation if they can be considered as belonging to the same religious family.   Others when they have too few members should unite with others. But they should have identical constitutions and rules under common spirit.

No. 23. It explains the necessity of the council of major superiors. The synod also favored conference or councils of major superiors established by the Holy See. This can be contribute very much to achieve the purposes of each institutes to encourage more effective cooperation for the welfare of the church, to ensure a more just distribution of ministries of the Gospel in a given area, and finally to conduct affairs of interest to all religious.. Similar conferences should also be established for secular institutes.

No.24 says about the duty of priest and Christian educators that is to foster vocations. The candidate should be suitably and carefully chosen. In ordinary preaching the life of evangelical councils those are chastity, poverty and obedience should be explained well. Parents also should prepare their children to accept vocations by installing Christian virtues in their hearts. Religious communities have the right to make themselves known in order to foster vocations. In doing this they should observe the norms lay down by Holy See and the local ordinary. There life is a better example for foster vocation.

No.25says that religious institutes should respond generously to the specific vocation God gave them as well as their work in the church today. The Sacred synod highly esteems their way of life in chastity, poverty and obedience and Christ himself is their example. That all the religious therefore rooted in faith and filled with love for God and their neighbor, love of the cross and the hope of future glory, spread the Good News of Christ throughout the whole world. Through this our Father in heaven will be glorified. Let them also beseech Mary the Mother of God, who is a mode for all that their number maybe increase daily and their works become more effective.