What Book or Website Can I use to find out the Different Orders of Monks

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For everyone the websites have been great and I’m going to look further. I got a lot of research to do but this is a fine start.

Now, I didn’t see it that way as just trying to stay in the secular world longer. I’m being thoroughly honest, that didn’t cross my mind. To be honest the secular world has nothing to offer me. There is nothing tempting about that secular world which sometimes, sometimes gives me nothing more the heebie jeebies. (I’m not trying to escape the world though, that’s why I read it the opposite I’m not jumping in to things to run away from things but taking a reasonable time make the best decision)

So, much sin. So many lost people. People isolated who don’t know there is a God who will come into your life so long as you pray and iron yourself out. People who have seen genuine miracles hiding their miracles out of fear of alienation and ostracism. Television is boring, movies are all about Comic Book Characters. I don’t even watch the news, who wants to hear about politics all day I’m sure there is something else going in America. This secular thing is so vile and jaded the only thing one can do is 1) play music 2) read classics 3) pray.

As of right now, I work in contract work in accounting. I go home and play music (guitar but I want to learn piano as well). I read different Classics. I study the Bible. And I pray the Rosary. I don’t do that because I’m boring but because everything outside of that looks sort of vile after a while and vile is boring. I really mean that. Contemporary Music isn’t any good. Contemporary books aren’t any good. Contemporary movies aren’t any good. There really is no sacrifice here.
 
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Cool site–thanks for the links!
There are almost zero vocations for old guys. But a couple of the pro life groups on your site look promising. Dispersed eremetical etc.
 
Sounds like there’s no reason to wait, then. Go for it!

p.s. big props on reading classics. I’m reading La Vita Nuova right now (being a working poet and all). La Divina Commedia is next, as it’s been a few years.
 
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You smoke, your drink, you play guitar, masterbation, television,…comic book movies no good…etc
You should be somewhat like a monk right now - already
More tough -
 
One sixty-five year old discerner got accepted for claustral Oblate the day he joined our online support group. After he entered, he was accepted to the Novitiate.

The Carthusian monks have donate brothers.

There are Cooperator Brothers in the Dominicans.

Or you could just write up a plan of life for yourself, design your own habit, and request recognition as a lay Contemplative.
 
Oh, Contemplative is definitely the fit for me.
But who does one approach with such a request–the local ordinary?
 
Work with a spiritual director first. That will be the first question asked by the bishop – do you have a spiritual director? Then when you are comfortable with what you have, put it down on paper. Whatever habit you design, practice with it for a year, one day a week, unseen by anyone. (Emergency situations are judgement calls. Would you or someone else die if you took time to remove the habit)?

Such could also be a stepping stone to diocesan eremitism, but that requires a lot more.

I thought of taking the lay Contemplative route myself, but things didn’t turn out that way.
 
Yes I’ve seen the diocesan consecrated hermit procedurals–very complex.
 
And I love “Into Great Silence,” by the way. Total surrender. Inspired a poem, a work in progress that I haven’t submitted anywhere yet. That film is like an extended, visual poem, in a way.
 
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Everyone discerning a vocation should watch that movie at least once.
 
Thank you, Maam. I’ve bookmarked the site, I’ll study it thoroughly. It won’t be further than 42 to pay off my all my debts and get all my affairs in order. Any later than that I would be selfish. Also, I’m going to write a hundred page essay or book explaining all the miracles I’ve seen, and when I started to see them at thirty. That way the Vocational Office will know I am not escaping life or attached to the secular life; Instead, I saw miracles late.

For everyone else, thank you. Let me pay you back with some miracles and lessons I’ve learned from them.

I was praying the Rosary early in in my early thirties. In front of me I saw a clear, clear, clear vision of the Blessed Mother. She was facing her left, for her profile and she nodded her head. I then heard a clear voice that said, “Pray for the soul not the body. Whatever happens to the body can be fixed in Heaven. Whatever happens to the soul has to be fixed in Hell.” That lesson has always stuck with me since that day.

Another time I was on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reading the daily liturgy. I was trying to decipher the lessons of the readings. Then I heard a voice say, “you are making points, not teachings. Monks make points. Priests deliver Teachings.”

These are only a few but yesterday the fire was lit. It was Pentecost and I spent the whole day in religious reverie seeing miracles that I cannot express here because you would never believe me. That’s when I decided I need to be a Monk.

Thanks everyone.
 
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On that note, you definitely need a spiritual director. Write everything like that down, but don’t share it with the general public.
 
There’s the International Fellowship of St Bruno on Yahoo Groups. They have interesting discussions about monastcism in general and the Carthusians in particular. They are in direct contact with the Carthusians, so it’s not hokey.
 
I’m unable to relocate, unfortunately. Dispersed-member orders seem to be extremely rare.
 
We have two Eremitical Networks. One is the Blessed Herman’s Eremitical Network which supports our Autism Ministry, and the lay Contemplatives of Life. They support our pro-life Ministry and all pro-lifers.
 
If exploring with us, one is required to join our Dr St Gianna’s Assistants for Life, which is our pro-life Ministry sponsored by our Charity charism’s lay associates.
 
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