Every journey in the Society of Jesus starts with the novitiate, a time for familiarizing oneself with Ignatian Spirituality and the Jesuit way of life. During this two-year period, novices engage themselves in various ‘experiments’, notably a pilgrimage and the thirty-day retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises. The person taking care of their formation and spiritual guidance is the novice master.
The Conference novice masters meet biennially to share their experiences and deepen some aspects of the formation and the life of the novitiate.
Traditionally, each province has a novitiate. There are 10 novitiates in Europe and the Near East. In some parts of Europe there is a common novitiate for different provinces.
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