Western Form (Tradition) Monastics
The western form of monasticism with the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America is built from the "accepted norm" of the Religious Orders that are found within the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. All monastics are members of the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America.
Some of our monastics are members of Ecumenical Religious Orders thus bring to us their monastic pathway/traditions as taught within their religious order. They continue their vocational training through their Ecumenical Religious Order.
For the monastic who is not member of an Ecumenical monastic order, he/she is free to choose which Daily Rule of a particular religious order they are called to follow as a monastic. They then petition the Metropolitan, bishop, vicar or abbot/hegumen to be allowed to become monastic in their way of life. In that petitioning, the request will include what Daily Rule/Order they wish to be a part of. Once they are accepted to become a monastic, their vocational training begins and they are clothed in the appropriate habit of the religious order for their appropriate rank (Postulant, Novice, Annual Profession of Vows, Perpetual Vows) within the Order. For example: A person chooses to follow the Daily Rule of the Benedictines so that person will become a Benedictine monastic within our jurisdiction and wear the Benedictine habit.
