They mostly study and pray. They spend about five hours a day praying and worshiping; this includes getting up at 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning to pray and have church services. They didn't have very much social or leisure time. Basically they gave there lives to God. They weren't allowed to marry and some had a vow of silence.
The Sacristy is a room in a church where the sacred utensils and vestments are kept. Looke after by the Sacristan
You are clearly very confused.Most monks could not "take services"; only priests could take services, hear confessions, conduct weddings, burials and baptisms, perform the last rights and so on. Most monks were not ordained priests and could do none of these things.Some monks in each monastery did become priests, in order to lead the services and hear confessions, but they were generally few in number. They were not intended to provide services for ordinary people - that was the role of the parish priest.
Hermits usually live alone and isolated from a community. Monks live in monasteries, usually with other monks.
Monks were teachers, grew herbs for medical needs, and spiritual leaders. Often travelers could find a safe place with them for a night.
Monks and nuns often served the community by becoming educators and teaching school. They also worked in hospitals as nurses or aids, led prayer services at churches or homes, and even made some products to sell.
This is just one Abby, an excerpt and the site:= The Monks Day = Morning Main services Mid day first meal Afternoon work Early Evening rest then second meal Evening early to bed Night church services The Abbey was home for about 100 monks who spent their time worshipping God. The first monks came to the Abbey from Clung in France, so the monks were called Cluniacs which had risen from another type of monk, the Benedictine order. Each day they attended eight services in the Abbey ChurchThe Monks day started at 3.00 am when they went to the first of eight services in the Abbey Church. The services could last up to two hours. Although everyone stood all through the services, the monks had misericords which meant they could rest their rear on a small shelf. The site and the rest of the story. * http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radstock/rht/themes/religion/monksday.html
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Monks and nuns are cloistered religious, and, as such, do not normally leave their monastery. The biggest thing that monks and nuns have provided in the way of "social services" would be education, they were really the first public education provided to the laity. They, also, in their Scriptoriums kept literature alive by their saving copies of many works of antiquity which otherwise would have been completely lost to us.
friars lived and worked in the community
fairs lived and worked in the community
White monks typically refer to Christian monks who wear white robes, such as Cistercians or Trappists. Black monks typically refer to Benedictine monks who wear black or dark-colored robes. This distinction is primarily based on the religious order they belong to.
Friars work in the community and they work while Monks work and preach Well for one thing, the monks robe is made of Monk's Clothe, and the friar's isn't. Well for one thing, the monks robe is made of Monk's Clothe, and the friar's isn't.
Generally, a variety of things happen in a Buddhist temple. Commonly, monks live there. Religious services, such as reciting teachings of the Buddha, happen there. Meditation is sometimes practiced. Food is offered to the monks at meal times.