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125 The Superior General with the consent of her Council, admits
a temporarily professed sister to final profession.
III. Juniorate

126 The period of juniorate covers the years from the first
profession to the final profession. The purpose of this period
is to deepen the spirituality and religious experience obtained
during the novitiate, through prayer, study, practical life-
experience, familiarity with apostolic services and
community living. Through this the young religious is
integrated and unified with the SJC Community style of
living more deeply and with grater resoluteness of decision.
As a result of this she is strengthened and enabled to live in
the SJC Community and in the midst of Godís people as a
living symbol of divine praise and glory and as a self-
sacrificing apostle of His merciful love.
IV. Continuing Formation

127 Religious life, from its beginning to the end, is a growth into
Jesus, and through Jesus towards the Father and His People.
It being so, each member of the SJC Community is bound to
maintain and develop herself unto the end as an instrument
of Godís praise and transmitter of His love. It is the
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bounden duty of the General Synaxis and the General Council
to evolve and actualize suitable programmes so that the
members may obtain adequate inspiration and instruction
towards materializing the above-said goals.

128 The goal to be realized through our religious formation is to
form, sustain and enhance the SJC as a community that
continually grows in the spirit of the Founding Father so as
to find its fulfillment in total consecration to God, in our
community life with mutual love and fraternity as well as in
our firm commitment to the service of His merciful love.
This will be made possible only through a sincere,

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