From the general constitutions

1. While firmly upholding the co-responsibility of the council to animate and guide the fraternity, the minister, as the primary person responsible for the fraternity, is expected to make sure that the directions and the decisions of the council are put into practice and will keep the council informed about what he or she is doing.
    
2. The minister also has the following duties:

1.  to call, to preside at, and to direct the meeting of the fraternity and council; to convoke every three years the elective chapter of the fraternity, having heard the council on the formalities of the convocation;
    
2. to prepare the annual report to be sent to the council of the higher level after it has been approved by the council of the fraternity;
    
3. to represent the fraternity in all its relations with ecclesiastical and civil authorities. When the fraternity acquires a juridical personality in the civil order, the minister becomes, when possible, its legal representative;
    
4. to request, with the consent of the council, the pastoral and fraternal visits, at least once every three years.
    
5. to put into effect those acts which the Constitutions refer to his or her competence