Fat Friar (was ghosts, magicians and babies was Re: Questions

[Jeanette]

No: HPFGUIDX 119326



> Silvia wrote:
.......monks/friars (I don't really know the difference between 
> these two either).
 
   As far I know  monks belong to a religious community where they 
swear an oath of obedience to the abbot and the rules of the 
community.  A friar takes "minor" vows of chasity, poverty and 
obedience to priests.  A friar does not belong to a community but 
lives with the people, sometimes serving in a church, but cannot 
hear confession or preform the mass. Sometimes a man became a friar 
to serve the church as a clerk or lawyer.

Jeanette