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answers given by the vocation director
answers given by the vocation director
Q. What kind of food will I eat?
A. We eat a regular diet, but generally do not eat red meat because we follow that suggestion of the Rule of Saint Benedict. We eat poultry and fish and dairy products.
Q. What do I bring?
A. Casual attire including work clothes (work boots would be helpful but not necessary), a bible and an open heart.
Q. What kind of expenses will there be?
A. There is no "entrance fee". Observers and Postulants should have sufficient funds to pay their own way (travel, insurance, dental care, clothes, telephone bills, etc.) until you become a Novice. We provide food and lodging. Our community does not have health insurance.
Q. Health requirements?
A. You must be in good health in order to live our life but a superman you need not be. Any serious illness will not permit you to participate fully into our day to day schedule, therefore we cannot receive candidates with a life threatening ailment or handicap. If you have any further questions regarding our health policy, please feel free to contact us.
Q. How about the priesthood?
A. We never promise anyone that we will have them ordained as priests. There are many factors that go into such a decision. We do send brothers away for philosophical and theological studies. At this time we have seven priests in the community. Candidates to our monastic life who are already ordained as priests or deacons receive the same consideration as others should they wish to enter.
Q. Are psychological tests required of candidates?
A. No. We evaluate each applicant through observation of their behavior when they first stay in the guesthouse.
Q. Home Visits and Receiving Guests?
A. Postulants and Novices normally stay in the monastery. All professed monks may ask to visit their families if a need arises.
SUMMARY
If you are interested in a strong monastic life with much prayer and a strong emphasis on seeking God, if you are drawn to common prayer with brothers who are seeking God, if you can accept obedience and humiliations, then perhaps this is the community for you.
Would you like to visit us to see if our life style is what you are looking for in a monastic community? As stated in our Guesthouse section, a reservation should be arranged six to eight weeks in advance during the warmer months (June to October).
Please contact Abbot Philip for vocational information: abbotphilip@gmail.com?subject=vocational query
A. We eat a regular diet, but generally do not eat red meat because we follow that suggestion of the Rule of Saint Benedict. We eat poultry and fish and dairy products.
Q. What do I bring?
A. Casual attire including work clothes (work boots would be helpful but not necessary), a bible and an open heart.
Q. What kind of expenses will there be?
A. There is no "entrance fee". Observers and Postulants should have sufficient funds to pay their own way (travel, insurance, dental care, clothes, telephone bills, etc.) until you become a Novice. We provide food and lodging. Our community does not have health insurance.
Q. Health requirements?
A. You must be in good health in order to live our life but a superman you need not be. Any serious illness will not permit you to participate fully into our day to day schedule, therefore we cannot receive candidates with a life threatening ailment or handicap. If you have any further questions regarding our health policy, please feel free to contact us.
Q. How about the priesthood?
A. We never promise anyone that we will have them ordained as priests. There are many factors that go into such a decision. We do send brothers away for philosophical and theological studies. At this time we have seven priests in the community. Candidates to our monastic life who are already ordained as priests or deacons receive the same consideration as others should they wish to enter.
Q. Are psychological tests required of candidates?
A. No. We evaluate each applicant through observation of their behavior when they first stay in the guesthouse.
Q. Home Visits and Receiving Guests?
A. Postulants and Novices normally stay in the monastery. All professed monks may ask to visit their families if a need arises.
SUMMARY
If you are interested in a strong monastic life with much prayer and a strong emphasis on seeking God, if you are drawn to common prayer with brothers who are seeking God, if you can accept obedience and humiliations, then perhaps this is the community for you.
Would you like to visit us to see if our life style is what you are looking for in a monastic community? As stated in our Guesthouse section, a reservation should be arranged six to eight weeks in advance during the warmer months (June to October).
Please contact Abbot Philip for vocational information: abbotphilip@gmail.com?subject=vocational query