Desire to serve God can arise at any age, but most often the similar feeling appears after a severe stress. Some men just realized that usual life is uninteresting to them and there is huge desire to help others. In such situation information on how to go to the monastery and what for this purpose is necessary will be as it is impossible by the way. For a start it is necessary to go to church or to the monastery on a conversation with the father whether to be defined the considered this decision or not.
How to the man to go to the monastery?
For a start it is regularly necessary to go to services and also to a confession and a participle. It is necessary to find the spiritual mentor who will allow to be convinced of adoption of the correct decision. If there are no forces and desire, on going to morning work, most likely, you will not be able to adhere to the monastic mode. Sometimes it is enough to go to the monastery for a while, making a pilgrimage, it will help to find rest, without renouncing normal life forever.
How to go to monastery:
- At first stay in the monastery as a trudnik. Performing difficult physical activity, it will be possible to be defined whether you are ready to live so for the rest of the natural.
- The following step – the novice. It will be for this purpose necessary to write the special application and to get permission.
- If you within several years successfully passed a trial period, then it is already possible to address the abbot to become the monk.
It is important to know also at what age it is possible to go to the monastery. There is no concrete limit in this question, but at the same time in monkhood tonsure are resolved only after 30 years. It is caused by the fact that the person has to make this decision responsibly, having life experience. Tonsure in monks only of those people who lived in the monastery of at least 5 years. If the person is not 18 years old yet, then he needs to talk to the priest, to receive blessing of parents and only then to go to the monastery where for a start it is better to live some time. Only having understood that the decision is more sincere and limited monastic life completely arranges, it is possible to address the abbot.
Still it is worth understanding such subject – whether it is possible to go to the monastery with the child. Priests, answering such question, give the negative answer, reasoning it with the fact that departure to the monastery is refusal of the world, and the child needs that he was fed, dressed, learned, etc. It is impossible to care and carry out duties and at the same time to be released from the world. In that case there is only one decision – to come to the monastery in a pilgrimage and to say prayers. Perhaps, God will send the correct decision and will turn life in other party.