Pagan Vocation

I'd like to get serious about constructing a set of pagan monastic practices based on the Cult of Vesta. I'd like to gather together books and research materials for this. 

I found one book in particular that I want to read at the New York Public Library today, but it was part of the reference collection, so I couldn't take it out. 

It will be important to have a thorough understanding--as far as it's possible--of the theology of Vesta and of what's known about the rituals and practices of the Vestals and to adapt these for modern, part-time practice.

And then--I'm thinking--I'd like to do them for a period of time longer than one month (a year?), which may not seem like a very big goal, but one month itself is harder than it looks.

Of course, some of the elements would be keeping a candle, celibacy, prayer, and a purification ritual. 

The research and actual practice should be both serious and sincere.