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FORMATION HOUSES

The Thailand Province maintains formation houses corresponding to each stage of the path to Religious life — from the youngest Aspirant to the Brother preparing for perpetual profession.

THE HOUSES OF FORMATION

JUNIORATE

Aspirancy · first introduction

The house where the youngest candidates are accompanied through their initial growth in the spiritual life, while continuing their formal education.

POSTULATE

Postulancy · preparing for the Novitiate

A focused period of living the Brothers' daily rhythm and discerning, with the formators, readiness to enter the canonical year of Novitiate.

NOVITIATE

The canonical year of formation

The house where the Novice spends a year set apart for prayer, study of the Rule, and deep discernment — before pronouncing first vows.

SCHOLASTICATE

Studies and apostolic preparation

The house where the Brother in temporary vows pursues theological and pastoral formation, preparing for perpetual profession and apostolic ministry.

Each formation house is, above all, a place of prayer — where young men learn to listen to the Lord in silence, in community, and in the writings of Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort.

A directory of each formation house, with its address and the Brother formators in charge, is being prepared with the Commission on Formation.