Candidates are those in training to be a Commissioned Governing Member, or Deacon, or Presbyter or consecrated Abbot. The point at which a person becomes a Candidate is by means of a Rite of Entrance whereby he or she is inducted into the Novitiate. The point at which a person completes the Novitiate and is no longer a Candidate is the Rite of Incorporation.
Also see Novitiate, Rite of Entrance, and Rite of Incorporation.