Novitiate should be the place of prayer,(not meaning only novitiate should be the place of prayer). Novices are to know more about the founder and his charism. They are to study and imitate him or her, admiring in him or her a splendid blending of nature and grace. In the case Salesian Novitiate novices are to study and imitate Don Bosco, admiring in him a splendid blending of nature and grace. He was deeply human, rich in the qualities of his people, open to the realities of this earth; and he was just as deeply the man of God, filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and living "as seeing him who is invisible".