If you wish to become an Oblate, first, find a monastery (or it may find you), make contact with the Director of Oblates, and he will talk you through the process.

You may be attracted to one particular monastery, (‘the monastery finds you’) and feel you would like to be part of it. Or, you may want to be a Benedictine Oblate but don’t have any affiliation to a periauricular monastery. In either case, looking for a Benedictine Monastery nearby would be useful, for the occasions when you wish to be present and join the Monastic Community in prayer.

For a year or so, you are considered a ‘Novice Oblate’. During this time, the Novice gets a taste of, and tests the Benedictine outlook. He or she prays the Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church, and makes themselves familiar with the Rule by reading it diligently three or four times.