He was picking medicine flowers and plants for the Brotherhood.
Juliet goes to see friar Laurence to get the drink that will make her look dead but she is really sleeping so that she can escape and go away with romeo
theres no friend around
She asks permission to go to confession.
The actual ceremony is not depicted, but in Act 2, Scene 6 we see Friar Laurence lead Romeo and Juliet away to be married.
Friar John was unable to make it to see Romeo because he was caught in a quarantine due to a suspected outbreak of the plague. This prevented him from delivering the message from Friar Laurence to Romeo about Juliet's fake death plan, leading to tragic consequences.
Twice in the play Juliet is allowed to visit Friar Lawrence's cell on the pretext of going to confession. One of those times is to marry Romeo. It would appear that this is the only excuse she can use to get out of the house.
To tell romeo to man up and go see Juliet, that's very worried
Friar Laurence tells Romeo to be grateful that he is still alive and has not been sentenced to death by the Prince for killing Tybalt. He reminds Romeo that there is hope for the future and urges him to see his banishment as a mercy rather than a curse.
Friar Laurence thought he had heard noise coming from the mausoleum, thus he went inside to see Romeo dead and Juliet awake - he had tried to convince Juliet to leave (as the Prince was on his way), but she stayed and stabbed herself with Romeo's dagger.
to get his help in devising a plan to get out of marrying Paris .
"Banishment? Be kind, say death!" Romeo kind of goes off the rails when he realizes that he cannot be in the same town as Juliet. Friar Lawrence has to shake him up and make him see reason--that things could be much worse.
"Banishment? Be kind, say death!" Romeo kind of goes off the rails when he realizes that he cannot be in the same town as Juliet. Friar Lawrence has to shake him up and make him see reason--that things could be much worse.