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least, as a general rule, with the permission of the General.a Moreover, it is fitting that, when they die, both the [enclosed] as well as the serving sisters, be buried within the enclosure.
The hard and austere realities, through which, according to this Order, one is led to God and which must necessarily be observed, must be explained to all who wish to enter this Order and are received, before they actually enter and change their garb, lest ignorance be their excuse later on. One should not be received who proves to be less than sufficiently fit for the observance of this life because of age, a sickness, or a mental deficiency; for the state and vigor of the Order is dissolved and disturbed through such persons.b Therefore, let any occasion for receiving such a person be cautiously and diligently avoided, even if some time for a reasonable cause a dispensation has to be given to someone.
All those received into the enclosure, if they are old enough to understand, should, according to custom, quickly put aside their secular clothes. A mistress may be appointed for them who shall mold them in the knowledge of religious life.c And after the completion of the space of one year, they may make their profession in this way: 1, Sister N., promise to God, to the ever blessed Virgin Mary, to Saint Francis, and to all the saints, to observe perpetual obedience according to the Rule and Form of Life given to your Order by the Apostolic See, by living all the days of my life without anything of my own, and in chastity.d Let this also be firmly observed for the serving [sisters] in the same way.
- This is the first of several points that express a relationship with the Lesser Brothers. It places the Poor Ladies directly under the jurisdiction of the Lesser Brothers and echoes Licet olim, June 12, 1246, in which Innocent IV expresses his desire to intensify the bond between the Brothers and the Poor Ladies, cf. FLInn 2, 6, 8, 12.
- As a result of papal, episcopal, conciliar, and monastic decrees, the issue of the age required for entrance into religious life had been substantially legislated by the mid-thirteenth century. In his Decretals, Gregory IX prescribed that children should not be professed before twelve years of age for girls or fourteen years of age for boys. Innocent IV confirmed this legislation and included a papal provision for reconfirmation of vows when one reached fifteen. Cf. John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988), 313-314.
- In contrast to the Form and Manner of Life of Hugolino, novices are entrusted to the care of a Mistress in agreement with Cum secundum consilium, November 22, 1220.
- This formula of profession is one of the major differences between the Form and Manner of Life of Innocent and that of Hugolino. Cf. Chiara Augusta Lainati, “Le formule di professione più antiche nelle Ordine di S. Chiara,” Forma Sororum XX (1983): 199-200.