Editing Trappists (section)

=== Becoming a Trappist ===
Though each monastery is autonomous and may have different rules, generally the stages to enter the Trappist life can be described as follows:<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ocso.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=61&lang=en |title=Becoming a monk or nun |publisher=Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae |postscript=. |access-date=2016-04-28 |archive-date=2016-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521062701/http://www.ocso.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=61&lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Candidate/observership: candidates or observers visit a monastery and consult the vocation director and/or the superior to help them discern their vocation. Usually they will be asked to live in the monastery for a short period of time, at least one month.
* [[Postulancy]]: candidates live as a member of the monastery as a postulant for some months and are guided by the novice director.
* [[Novitiate]]: postulants will be clothed with the monastic habit and are formally received as a member of this order. Novices are still guided by the novice director, and they undergo this stage for two years.
* After novitiate, novices may take temporary [[Religious vows|vows]]. They will live this stage for three to nine years to deepen study, practicing the Gospel in the monastic way and integration within the society.
* After finishing the previous stage, the professed members may take final vows for their entire life.