Claret Bhavan, our novitiate house in India, continues its unique contribution of providing opportunity to the novices of different men and women congregations of the area to come together for holistic experience and growth under the banner of Common Novitiate Programme. The new batch of 18 Claretian Novices in Indian began their Novitiate on 30 May 2018.

The common Novitiate Programme was inaugurated on 16 June 2018. This year there are 70 novices from 10 different congregations attending the common programme. During the year they will have the opportunity to grow through the inputs on various topics such as Aims and Objectives of Novitiate, Charisms, Community life, Discernment, History of Religious life, Psycho-Spiritual Integration, Psycho-Sexual Integration, Human Maturity, Liturgy, and Biblical Foundation.