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Lay brothers' primary purpose is to provide the practical support for running monastery workshops, farms, kitchens and the like, thereby freeing the choir monks to spend more time in prayer and study. However, lay brothers are still monks, so they also devote a significant portion of their day to prayer. Choir monks are still expected to spend a part of their day in manual labor; the distinction being the types of vows taken and the proportions of work, study and formal prayer in their lives.

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rdfs:comment	Lay brothers' primary purpose is to provide the practical support for running monastery workshops, farms, kitchens and the like, thereby freeing the choir monks to spend more time in prayer and study. However, lay brothers are still monks, so they also devote a significant portion of their day to prayer. Choir monks are still expected to spend a part of their day in manual labor; the distinction being the types of vows taken and the proportions of work, study and formal prayer in their lives.
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abstract	Lay brothers' primary purpose is to provide the practical support for running monastery workshops, farms, kitchens and the like, thereby freeing the choir monks to spend more time in prayer and study. However, lay brothers are still monks, so they also devote a significant portion of their day to prayer. Choir monks are still expected to spend a part of their day in manual labor; the distinction being the types of vows taken and the proportions of work, study and formal prayer in their lives. Lay brothers have been known, in various places and at various times, as fratres conversi, "converse brothers," laici barbati, illiterati, or idiotæ. These last two stem from the fact that in previous centuries, lay brothers were often not well educated, or even literate, and therefore unsuitable for studies leading to life as a choir monk or priest (in some orders, all choir monks are actually also priests). Thus, with skills as carpenters or cooks, but without the ability to read the psalms to be sung during the Divine Office, lay brothers lived and worked in their own section of the monastery grounds, participated in simplified prayer services or attended the prayers of the choir monks, and spent a greater part of their day engaging in their skilled trade or unskilled labor. With literacy much wider today, most lay brothers can read, but either do not have the inclination or talent to undertake advanced theology studies, or have chosen the lay brother's life for other reasons.

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