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Begin your journey by reaching out to us with your questions. We welcome all inquiries with open hearts.

Take time to reflect on your calling and the life of a monk. Engage in prayer and discussions with our community. And come see us! Visit as often as you would like. Regardless of your stage in this process, you are welcome to come stay with us.

After multiple visits and mutual discernment, a candidate may be invited to start the postulancy. The postulancy is a one year process during which the candidate is invited to gradually live more and more like a monk. The Postulant will take some classes, but overall has more freedom and flexibility than the rest of the monks. The purpose of this time is for the Postulant to get to know us and for us to get to know him, so that we can both make a discernment regarding his future.

The novitiate is a 2 year process during which the Novice enters into the silence of monastic life, and allows himself to decrease so that the Christ in him might increase. During this time the Novice has no phone and no computer, and takes a more intense load of classes. He does not participate in any  of our external works.

After the novitiate, if the Novice would like to continue and the community agrees, he takes monastic vows but only for a period of 3 years. He continues studies, and he begins to be involved in our external works.

After Simple Vows, the monk is now eligible to take Solemn Vows, where he commits himself to stability, obedience, and Convesatio Morum for the remainder of his life. It is a profound experience where the monk unites himself intimately to Christ.

After Solemn Vows, the monk may enter into full-time apostolic work, or continue full time studies towards ordination to the priesthood. These Studies may take the monk to Oxford, Rome, or some monastery in the U.S. or abroad, but the monk will always eagerly look forward to returning to the monastery which has become his home, and the people he has come to serve.