Go as far as God calls you. The Church and Society recognize that the more exposure, training and experience a brother can acquire, the more the Congregation and others benefit. The Order works to provide for and facilitate your identified spiritual and God given talents, specifically towards advancement in the Traditional Priestly schools of Theology, Agriculture and Medicine. Members enter as servants of the Church and are made Deacons unless they are already ordained. Immersion and formation goals include bro. Thomas Merton's philosophy that "a monk must be fully human first" as well as orientation to Gospel life and Study, Ordainment, Functions within the monastic Society, Church and Secular world and most of all, your confidence and ability in yourself and all that you do. It is the conversion of all that is negative, toxic and deleterious into that which is wholesome, beneficial and life giving. Regardless of level or expression, the anchorite and the intenerate hold life and God's creation in their hands. As a Chivalry order, we pledge Ethics and accuracy in the word, if involvement, Mercy in the world and the search for ourselves as vessels of God's blessings. May God bless you Abundantly in his service. May He grant his Grace and Peace to you, uplift your heart and give you strength.
"We're not really anything but ourselves? Returned to a natural and neutral place, ideally not only more fully capable in our whole selves, but also in our physical ability to be mostly independent of compelling things that disrupt our natural pursuit and instincts? I lived in the middle of an oak forest on top of a mountain, where we had little more than the animals we lived with and still, were among the most healthy and happy for our age groups in the region. I think I am fairly posh? But in those days, I walked 12 miles down and up that mountain more than once a week, joyful. Almost the whole time singing to myself. If you can help one that hits a bump, feed or heal besides your own self and still find a sense of wonder, of anticipation - how were you measuring your spiritual success? How have you been trying to measure yourself as a person? Wouldn't you improve the quality of what you were made to do, if you were doing that? Oh, and there's nothing wrong with a good suit." - Senior Health Officer, +Dr. Karl Buchanan