Answer 1: The friars really confront the people of God in his parish while the monks live in contemplation inside the monastery.The monk does not really evangelize outside.
Answer 2:The first answer's correct. Here's more...
The questioner uses the word "were" as though it were a thing of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth. It continues, still; and in much the same way, today, as in the past.
Monks and friars both live similarly contemplative lives, "in community," in a "friary" (in the case of friars), or a "monastery" (in the case of monks). Another word for "monk" (and sometimes intentionally used instead of "monk") is "monastic."
The monk lives a "cloistered" life, in a monastery, serving the world largely through prayer. Some are even "ascetic," meaning that they deprive themselves of various worldly things as part of their service to God. Some monks, though they live together in a monastery and so are already in a sort of seclusion, do so in in even greater seclusion within the monastery, and so are hermits. Some monasteries even have separate little cabin-like buildings (called "hermitages") in which a single monk may live for long periods, as a hermit, having no contact with anyone. Some hermits live entirely outside the monaster, in a hermitage that's out in the world, somewhere. If there are no separate hermitages in the monastery, and so if the monk lives in seclusion in his cell in the monastery, then he's called a "recluse." Monks who live in full community in the monastery are called "cenobites."
In the case of monks who perform some kind of service for a fee or donation, or who manufacture something of value, used by the outside world, then they serve by providing that, too; and the proceeds, of course, help to support the community. Many Trappist orders, for example, make and sell bread that is of very high quality. Some orders are in or near vineyards, and have wineries, and make wine... including alter wine for use during the Eucharist. Monks, though, in any case, rarely, if ever, leave the monastery.
Unlike at least most (but certainly not all) monks, Friars do their work nearly entirely out in the world. Friars are not "cloistered." That is the single largest salient difference between friars and monks. There are others, but that's the big -- or at least the most obvious -- one.
Monks and friars often even look alike, wearing similar kinds of robes (called "habits"), consisting, often, of a tunic, over which often fits a scapular, and then usually with a hood (sometimes called a "cowl;" although some call the entire robe, if there's no separate tunic and scapular, but if there is a hood, the "cowl"); and they both live similarly prayerful and contemplative lives...
...punctuated, though, by praying what's called "The Daily Office," or "The Divine Office," or "The Liturgy of the Hours," or "The Canonical Hours," all of which consist of several prayers per day and night, in a largely Bendictine practice, at the following times of day and/or night...
The permanent vow usually also includes that the avowed/professed agees to be buried in the monastery's or friary's private, on-the-grounds cemetery; and so professing permanent vows usually means that one's corporeal body never leaves the grounds, ever again (other than, of course, visits elsewhere, or to go to work, etc.). In the case of friars, "grounds" includes all friaries owned and/or operated by their order; so the friar may move, during his life, from friary to friary, but the order usually has a cemetary at the main or "headquarters" (for lack of a better term) friary.
If the candidate has no post-secondary religious education, some orders will encourage the acquisition of a Bachelor of Theology (BTh or ThB), or Bachelor of Divinity (BDiv or BD) degree; and the novitiate will be adjusted to a year to complete The Bachelor's freshman year; and then the "solemnly avowed" period adjusted to three years long, during which the sophomore thru senior years of the BTh/ThB or BDiv/BD are earned. If the candidate wants to become a priest or theological professor, then the bachelors degree could be begun during postulancy, and continue thru the novitiate and into the solemnly-avowed period; which solemnly-avowed period could then have its length adjusted to coincide with the completion of one of the masters degrees listed in the next paragraph. How those periods would be adjusted, though, would be entirely flexible; and the degree could end-up being something mostly earned during the solemnly-avowed or even permanently-avowed periods.
If the candidate has a post-secondary religious education -- or even just a "suitable to religion" sort of bachelor's degree in almost any subject -- and wants to also become a priest or theology professor, then, in some orders, a Master of Theology (MTh or ThM), or Master of Sacred Theology (STM), or even a Master of Divinity (MDiv)) could be earned during the residential postulancy-thru-end-of-solemnly-avowed periods; or during the permanently-avowed period.
Any doctoral-level degree (PhD, ThD or DMin) would, in some orders, be earned only after profession of permanent vows.
The bottom-line answer, then, to the question, "How were/are the lives of friars different from the lives of monks?" is that they're actually not all that different, except that monks are usually cloistered, and friars are usually out and about in the world. The details of the differences, though, are as I've herein above described.
# # # # Please see: Cleary, G. (1909). Friar. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 30, 2009 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280b.htm # It states: The word friar is to be carefully distinguished in its application from the word monk. For the monk retirement and solitude are undisturbed by the public ministry, unless under exceptional circumstances. His vow of poverty binds him strictly as an individual but in no way affects the right of tenure of his order. In the life of the friar, on the contrary, the exercise of the sacred ministry is an essential feature, for which the life of the cloister is considered as but an immediate preparation. His vow of poverty, too, not only binds him as an individual to the exercise of that virtue, but, originally at least, precluded also the right of tenure in common with his brethren. Thus originally the various orders of friars could possess no fixed revenues and lived upon the voluntary offerings of the faithful.
Monks, as they are today, remain in their monastery, they do not travel about, while missionaries are usually priests who are either with an active Order, like the Franciscans or Dominicans. However, monks could be considered missionaries in a sense, in that they often travel to foreign lands to set up a new monastery. However, they are never the first priests in a new land, that would be missionaries proper. Also, a monk is primarily a monk, and only secondarily a priest, not all monks are ordained to be priests. Before Vatican Council II, a monk who was a priest was considered a choir monk and his duties lay primarily in choir and administering the sacraments, while most monks were claustral, they did the manual labor.
Monks generally live and work together in a monastery while friars live singly or in small groups and work in the world.
Monks stay in the monastery while friars stay in the community.
The missionaries were on Ireland and the monks were by a deprecate rule and IDs and ilks
Friars live the evangelical counsels (vows of poverty, chastity and obedience) to service the community. Monks practice asceticism (living alone or with other monks) and devotion. Monks are self-sufficient, whereas friars live among other people and rely on donations. Friars are can also travel within a wide area, but monks stay in the same place.
Friars work in the community and they work while Monks work and preach Well for one thing, the monks robe is made of Monk's Clothe, and the friar's isn't. Well for one thing, the monks robe is made of Monk's Clothe, and the friar's isn't.
Both monks and friars have been teachers throughout their history. The Benedictine monks were the first to establish regular schools in their monasteries, but, of course, they were founded six hundred years before Friars.
friars lived and worked in the community
Monks lived in secluded communities and focused on contemplation and prayer, following a strict routine set by the rule of their order, while friars were itinerant preachers who traveled and worked in the community, focusing on helping the poor and spreading the teachings of the church. Monks typically lived in monasteries and owned communal property, while friars lived in friaries and took vows of poverty.
The Franciscan Order. However, they are not monks, they are friars. Monks live in a monastery and work there, friars live in a convent or friary and work in the "real world."
Friars and seminarians are not the same. Seminarians are studying to be priests. Friars are usually monks (a/k/a Christian brothers).
St. Francis of Assisi created the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) to live a life of poverty, simplicity, and service to others in imitation of Christ. He wanted to reform the Church and help people experience the joy of living a life devoted to God.
Monks or Friars.
Order of Friars Minor--WIKIPEDIA
The is no such thing as a "Franciscan Order of monks." Monks are monks: Benedictines, Cisterisans, etc. Franciscans are friars, and they were founded by St. Francis of Assisi, who founded his Order in Assisi.
Neither Franciscans or Jesuits are monks.