intrested to live as a monk

Hallo Monk26,

It is a very different form of calling to that of 'priest'.
I found myself living as part of a more dispersed community working in a local church and serving a local community. It is great to have a 'religious family' to go back to for R&R and prayer.

Have to admit I do enjoy spending quite time with Trappist nuns.

Never understood the point of locking oneself away from the world, when Jesus told us to get up and go take the Gospel out into the world.

This is not about 'locking yourself away' for i assure you the 'world' is just as much in a monastry as it is anywhere else in this fallen world.

It is a specific call to serve in prayer.

Most pray for those who know Christ to keep Christ, for those who do not know Christ to come to know Christ and for the people who suffer in this fallen world to know Gods blessing and hope.

Many offer safe places of retreat to those in need, many work as spiritual directors and 'go out' to visit the world to share Christ to use Thomas Merton's phrase and they work to support the Church (not simply a denomination but all who love Christ)

Posted 20.48 UK Tues 25th March

vespasia said:

This is not about 'locking yourself away' for i assure you the 'world' is just as much in a monastry as it is anywhere else in this fallen world.

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Really? How many nonChristians are there in a monastary for the monks to present the Gospel to?

Many offer safe places of retreat to those in need, many work as spiritual directors and 'go out' to visit the world to share Christ to use Thomas Merton's phrase and they work to support the Church (not simply a denomination but all who love Christ)

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Thomas Merton? The New Age guru?

If I had not read your first post, I would have immediately have said that being a monk in a monastery is the most unbiblical lifestyle out there.
But seeing that you've stated that you would 'go out' I can hardly call it a monastery.
The commission Jesus called was that we all go out and tell the world the gospel of the Saviour, and of course that we help each other out as each of us have need.
So I find nothing wrong with you being a monk, for whatever is in a title... but one thing about the prayer. I know that praying for the world has no wrong in it, in such a manner especially as to pray that those in Christ stay in Christ and those who do not know Christ to come to know Christ and for the people who suffer in this fallen world to know Gods blessing and hope, however I would encourage you to pray specific prayers. It's one thing to pray for the world in a broad since, but sometimes the saints of the world need prayers of encouragement, healing, and blessing to move from one place in their life to another, even for the answers they have questions to.

I encourage you in your calling if it is truly from God, but I also encourage you to be especially as united with the people as Jesus was.

Hebrews 10:24-25
24And let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities, 25Not forsaking or neglecting to assemble together [as believers], as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching.

Since you are a female, you'd more than likely be a nun instead of a monk.

Please note; the time glitch has scrambled the posts in this thread.
The OP is male and considering the cistercians aka 'trappists'.

'Monsaticism' covers both male and female as it did in its orgins in the Egptian desert in the C4th.