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Lay brother
In the most common usage, lay brothers are those members of Catholic religious orders, particularly of monastic orders, occupied primarily with manual labor and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary, in contrast to the choir monks of the same monastery who are devoted mainly to the Liturgy of the Hours, or Opus Dei ("The Work of God") as it is called, and to study. Lay brothers' primary purpose is to provide the practical support for running monastery workshops, farms, kitchens and the like to free the choir monks to spend more time in prayer and study.
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