Besides run orphanages and teach Catholic school?
2007-10-29 13:04:19 · 30 answers · asked by AmigaJoe 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All Nuns are religious Sisters. Not all Religious sisters are Nuns. Nuns live in a cloister and spend a great deal of their time, day and night praying as they take seriously the command of Jesus to pray always. They also have a way of supporting themselves without leaving the cloister, often by making and selling the Communion hosts or by baking and selling bread.. They do not leave the cloister except to go to the doctors or in case of an emergency.
Religious Sisters live in convents and work for the Church or where ever they can find work, (with so many Churches and schools and hospitals, closing) They can leave the convent when ever they want to but also pray with their community.
Both Sisters and Nuns take vows not to marry, own their own property and obedience to the Church.
2007-10-29 13:53:24 · answer #1 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some orders are more involved with the community and being "out there" doing work than others.
The very cloistered nuns pretty much pray a good part of time. Diane Sawyer did a PrimeTime (or something) on one order, and they went into the convent, only saw family twice a year (I think), and believed that by "sending prayers out" to the universe they were doing something good.
They read The Bible, Some nuns make the hosts that are served as communion at Mass.
Diane Sawyer asked one of them if she thought she may more of more help to God by being out in the world, trying to do things for people (like Mother Theresa did). Diane Sawyer asked if this nun thought sitting around and sending prayers out to the world was really what God wanted. The answer was something along the lines of, "the world needs both".
On the other hand, when I was a little kid I was invited into a convent (where teaching nuns lived), so a nun could give me a medal and card for my sick mother. I could hear the other nuns out in the kitchen, cooking and talking and laughing. It sounded like any group of women who may live together.
2007-10-29 20:17:52 · answer #2 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life.[1] She may be an ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Roman Catholics, Eastern Christians, Anglicans, Jains, Lutherans, Buddhists, and Taoist, for example. The male equivalent of a nun is a monk..........=)
2007-10-29 20:08:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are nurses, they tend to the ill, they act as the liaisons between the church and the people, they are teachers, and scholars, archivists and artists.
Nuns fill a lot of roles. They fill the role most priests can not.
2007-10-29 20:08:32 · answer #4 · answered by Stone K 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
they do a bunch of things. some are teachers and take care of orphans, yes but they also do charatible works, mission work, they work in the dioscese...and so on and so forth. check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun
2007-10-29 20:09:07 · answer #5 · answered by Tabithia Rose ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the charisms of their order.
There are teachers, nurses, missionaries, etc.
Many just spend their days in prayer.
2007-10-29 20:13:31 · answer #6 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get thee to a nunnery and find out for ye selves.
2007-10-29 20:13:17 · answer #7 · answered by Christopher J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuns . They have taken a vow to religion. Read more there.
2007-10-29 20:06:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean aside from nunning?
2007-10-29 20:06:28 · answer #9 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They deprive Jesus the pleasure of playing with any of their children that he loves so much!!!
Actually the nuns do not produce any offspring for the Kingdom of God!
2007-10-29 20:13:27 · answer #10 · answered by Opus 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋