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<blockquote data-quote="Ciudad de Dios" data-source="post: 1507162" data-attributes="member: 23227">St Silouan the Athonite: “In the last days there will be many with the monastic spirit living in the world as a witness to the Faith, neither married, nor having taken the monastic vows, but single, yet monastics at heart.”The single life should not be thought of as a &quot;default position&quot; for those who can&#039;t find someone to marry, or don&#039;t have a monastic vocation. It is true that there are three kinds of people who embrace the single vocation: those who want marriage but cannot find someone suitable and (wisely) will not enter into a bad marriage; those who sought the priesthood or monastic vocation but couldn&#039;t make it for some reason; those who feel called to be single from the very outset.&nbsp;Being single is everyone&#039;s state in life for at least a short time. Not everyone will become a monk, nun, or get married. However, every monk and married person was single until their profession of vows or marriage. Those who fall into the first two categories of people who are single can accept their state without bitterness as a manifestation of God&#039;s will and thereby make their vocation as meritorious as those who choose it from the very start of their adult life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ciudad de Dios, post: 1507162, member: 23227"] St Silouan the Athonite: “In the last days there will be many with the monastic spirit living in the world as a witness to the Faith, neither married, nor having taken the monastic vows, but single, yet monastics at heart.” The single life should not be thought of as a "default position" for those who can't find someone to marry, or don't have a monastic vocation. It is true that there are three kinds of people who embrace the single vocation: those who want marriage but cannot find someone suitable and (wisely) will not enter into a bad marriage; those who sought the priesthood or monastic vocation but couldn't make it for some reason; those who feel called to be single from the very outset. Being single is everyone's state in life for at least a short time. Not everyone will become a monk, nun, or get married. However, every monk and married person was single until their profession of vows or marriage. Those who fall into the first two categories of people who are single can accept their state without bitterness as a manifestation of God's will and thereby make their vocation as meritorious as those who choose it from the very start of their adult life. [/QUOTE]

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