Further approval of pledge for monks, assessment of monks, and formalising monastic rules

The Monasteries Committee prepared the text of the pledge of a monk who is be ordinated a priest, to present it to the Holy Synod headed by Pope Shenouda III Appendix No. 2The Synod approved this text. The Holy Synod had previously approved the pledge of the applicant to monasticism for his ordination as a monk.
The Holy Synod approved the recommendation of the Monasteries Committee to conduct a medical examination of monastic applicants, which reads: The Committee recommends the importance of conducting a complete medical examination of the monks, because a sick monk - at the beginning of his monasticism - becomes a burden on the monastery, as he leaves the monastery for treatment frequently. It is incompatible with the stability of the monastic life, and undertaking his monastic duties.
It is stated in the report of the Synodal Monasteries Committee, that it will hold a special meeting to lay down the Principle Canons and Executive Regulation for monasticism on Wednesday 16 July at the Papal residence in St. Rewis, in accordance with Decree No. 7 regarding Monasteries and monks in the meeting on 21/06/1986. Noting that the Committee gathered a large number of the decrees of the Holy Synod which organise monastic life, the Holy Synod, in the aforementioned decree, requested that the Constitution include these decrees.
His Holiness the Pope presented the idea of establishing a monastery that would make monastic life in as it was in the early ages without modern civil means.

01 June 1996

5. Monks and Monasteries

Monks, Monasteries, Consecrations & Ordinations