What Does “Novice” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
Someone who enters a religious order and is in the first time of testing, before making vows.
It can mean
- The novitiate: is that time. The novice learns to live as the order lives and to pray with it.
- Afterward: the novice makes vows: promising God chastity, poverty and obedience.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 5:11
What the Bible says
Luke 5:11
And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “novicio” and “noviciado”; Catechism 915