I believe I am called to become a monk.
How do I proceed?
How to become a monk
Hudson Foster
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Lucas Taylor
Decide which order you wish to join and check the "How to Join" section of their website.
Lucas Harris
I am not even baptised. Yesterday night while in bed I was compelled to get up, get on my knees and pray that I renounce all carnal things and will devote my life to God.
How do I decide which order to join?
Cooper Jackson
I am very mathematically inclined. Is there an order with a strong intellectual focus? Is this the right way to choose?
Jack Carter
Deciding on which order to join is a matter of deciding how you want to devote your life and what you want to help accomplish.
The Jesuits.
Dominic James
I am no expert but aren't Jesuits involved in a lot of nefarious dealings? They seem to be the subject of many conspiracies (presumed or actual).
I am going to sleep now.
I will be back tomorrow.
So please still post if you have some advice.
Liam Wilson
Yeah, well, since the Jesuits have such a strong emphasis on education - both religious and secular - they become the target of those groups who are anti-intellectual, anti-academia, and anti-education. They're really not the boogeymen people say they are. They also have no Third Order, which means they have no laity. All Jesuits are priests/monks, so they look like a "secret society", but they're not.
And, hey, the Pope is a Jesuit!
Eli James
You have at least 5 years of spiritual preperation lad. Get baptised and spend a few years attending mass, participating in the community etc. To see if this really is your calling. Its for the rest of your life so no rush!
Cameron Gomez
There are no orders in the Orthodox Church. The procedure is usually the following:
1. You go to the monastery and stay there for a couple or so days as a guest on their expence.
2. After these few days, if you still remain in the monastery, you become a novice, one under obedience and you remain such for several years. They may order you to do some pointless task, or to do something in an obviously wrong way. If you do the task not exactly as you were told, they may suggest to you to leave the monastery.
3. During this time you will have to obey many orders designed especially to bend your will, you will have to do things you wouldn't want to do. (What about cleaning the toilets?)
4. While you are in this state, it won't be a sin if you decide that you can not take it any more and ask a blessing to leave the monastery.
5. Years will pass, the monks around you will get promoted, some will be ordained as deacons and priests. You may start thinking: what is happening, apparently some people in this monastery are preferred to others.
6. Even more years will pass. You no longer care what order they give to you. You simply do as a child whatever is required and you feel happy.
7. When this happens, they will propose to you to take monastic vows. Congratulations, you have become a monk proper!
Anthony Perry
Interesting, though that sounds to me like you're obeying the monastery, not God.