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A monastery timetable runs from before dawn and leaves little unscheduled time Monastic brewing and cheese-making grew out of the need to fund a community Abbots and abbesses are elected by the community rather than appointed from outside The novitiate exists so candidates can leave before making a lifelong commitment Vows of poverty and obedience are renewed before they become permanent Monastic numbers are falling in Europe and rising in parts of Africa and Asia Monasteries now run retreat centres and guesthouses to support themselves Grand silence is kept in some houses from evening until morning prayer Lay oblates follow a monastic rule while living and working outside Enclosed nuns see visitors through a grille and rarely leave the convent grounds Mount Athos has banned women for a thousand years and that rule is still enforced Buddhist monks on alms rounds depend on the neighborhood for one meal a day What a novice actually does during the year before taking vows How a monastery handles a monk who asks to leave after twenty years Poverty in the cloister: who owns the laptop a monk uses

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