Ye Catholics, Orthodox, some Anglicans and Lutherans

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and of course anyone else is welcome, not trying to exclude, but the pobabilities are as they are:

Given you were called, which religious order seems to you to be the probable best fit?

For me, no contest - had I been in the right place at the right time, I would have sought the Carthusians.

"Frater, momento mori?" "Never reformed, because never deformed?" I spent my semester abroad housed in a 14th century Carthusian monastery in the eastern (=older, softer) Austrian Alps - gorgeous setting, very peaceful still today. It had it's moments during the Turkish assault on Vienna, but you'd never know it now; and the so-important outer wall is a crumbled ruin.

For my pick, either a Franciscan order or one with a similar eye towards poverty - simplicity if you like - and service.

Sounds to fit your style. I envy you the Charterhouse and now I gotta repent.

We have been privileged to put in some time with the Pecos Benedictines and [though my wife did not go that one] the Anglican Benedictines in Michigan. Both very good, not uncongenial, but I have to join Thomas More [another ennea-5] in being not quite Carthusian.

I nearly became a Jesuit.

That too can I see. There is an element in me that sees some resonance there. I thought very seriously of running the gauntlet of the Exercise at one point, though it never actually happened. Just stay away from Tudor through Jacobean England.