What did nuns use to work?

Answer 1

No they are not allowed to work outside the organization. But they do a lot of social service by taking care of the poor and the aged. Treating people with cancer and various other works of charity.

Answer 2

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Catholic AnswerNuns are women religious who lived an enclosed live in a monastery. Their primary occupation is prayer, although they usually make things: like altar breads, altar linens, vestments, etc. to earn their living. They do not get paid a salary. Sisters are religious women who live and work out in the world, although they usually live in a community in a convent. Their work is usually paid, if they are working in a hospital, educational institute, etc., although the money is paid to the order. The individual sister gets whatever she needs from her community. Both nuns and sisters are under either vows in the first case, or promises in the second case-these include poverty: they have given up any private ownership of anything, including a "salary" or wage.

Answer 3

Catholic AnswerA nun, as opposed to a sister (a nun is a woman in solemn vows who lives in a monastery; a sister is usually in perpetual or simple vows or promises, and lives in a convent or out in the world) primary occupation is the Opus Dei, the Work of God, which is the Divine Office and the Mass. This is referred to as "the Office". So, properly speaking, she works at prayer in the chapel, in a monastery. In some Benedictine monasteries before Vatican Council II, the Office would take as many as six and half hours a day to be sung properly. In addition to the Office, nuns usually have some work that they do at their monastery: depending on the particular Order, this could be giving retreats, making altar breads, sewing Vestments and altar hangings, running a farm. Sisters, on the other hand, usually work in the world, their occupations classically included teaching, nursing, and the like. AnswerStrictly speaking many nuns take solemn vows, which prevents them from leaving their monasteries. They spend their day in prayer and meditation, supporting themselves by the sale of communion hosts [ prior to 1950 all hosts were "manufactured" by secluded nuns, using outmoded methods. Parts needed for the appliances they used are no longer available, and most "hosts" are made commercially. In the present the nuns act as "middle men" selling the commercially made product and keeping part of the profit to sustain the monastery. Sisters are members of congregations who have varied apostolic ventures (jobs), teaching, nursing, social work, administrative work in diocesan offices. They are paid equal "wages" as lay people working in the same positions, however the payment is made to the congregation, the sisters live on a stipend provided by the congregation.