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Priests and Christian educators should make serious efforts to
foster religious vocations, thereby increasing the strength of the
Church, corresponding to its needs. These candidates should be
suitably and carefully chosen. In ordinary preaching, the life of the
evangelical counsels and the religious state should be treated more
frequently. Parents, too, should nurture and protect religious
vocations in their children by instilling Christian virtue in their
hearts.
Religious communities have the right to make themselves known in order
to foster vocations and seek candidates. In doing this, however,
they should observe the norms laid down by the Holy See and the local
Ordinary.
Religious should remember there is no better way than their own example
to commend their institutes and gain candidates for the religious life.
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