Are you ready for this? Try out the religious (monastic) life just for a weekend. If you like the experience, come back and stay. The best the English religious orders have to offer! I suppose when you have problems getting people to enter the religious life you have to create “fun” things to attract newbies. The BBC article reports: “In 1982, there were 217 novices in the Catholic Church in England and Wales but by 2007 that figure had dropped to 29.”