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"ORDINARY MEMBERSHIP: The Corporation of ADP-VV FPD Lay Missionaries is ORDINARILY joined by individual lay faithful who, being already spiritual members of the ADP-VV Marian groups of prayer and having successfully passed a certain period of trial and spiritual preparation, wish to commit themselves more assiduously and closely, as Full-time, Part-time or Long-Distance lay missionaries, in support of the evangelization and charity works of the pfsgm - by making an explicit written request. In case of acceptance on the part of the ADP-VV FPD LA-USA Lay Missionaries Board of Directors, under the supervision of their lay President and the pfsgm Servant General, assisted by the pfsgm Board of Directors, the admission of the new member will be written down in the Book of Associates, attesting to their effective juridical belonging to the above said Lay Missionaries, but not before a period of - 6 years of trial as a "Spiritual" Missionary - has passed according to one of the three chosen types, specified in the following point.
EXTRAORDINARY MEMBERSHIP: Each member can also officially join this Corporation in an EXTRAORDINARY way, even before the end of the 6 years of trial, according to the aforementioned constraints of annotation in the Book of Associates, if he has particularly distinguished himself for virtue and missionary commitment. Each new member officially admitted undertakes observing the rules of this Statute." (By Laws ADP-VV FPD Lay Missionaries, Constitutional Preamble, Admission & Types of Missionaries)
