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henrikhank said:
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How do you visit a monastery/convent?
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Some will have a daily or Sunday Mass in their public chapel; others have guest houses for visitors who want to stay for more than a day. If you aren’t near a monastery, you could write to those you would like to visit to ask what they offer for visitors. Also, most will have a monk or nun whose duty it is to welcome guests.
 
henrikhank said:
Pax et bonum!
How do you visit a monastery/convent?
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I have a friend who visited a cloister convent. I seem to remember her telling me that she wrote to them and asked if she could come on a specific day, since they did not have a telephone.
 
FCEGM said:
Some will have a daily or Sunday Mass in their public chapel; others have guest houses for visitors who want to stay for more than a day. If you aren’t near a monastery, you could write to those you would like to visit to ask what they offer for visitors. Also, most will have a monk or nun whose duty it is to welcome guests.
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how do you behave at a monastey/convent?
 
henrikhank said:
how do you behave at a monastey/convent?
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Piously 🙂 Modest dress is required, and silence most of the time. Usually guests cannot enter the cloister, so you have to stay in the guests’ area of the monastery or go for walks outside. Generally it’s a time to step away from the modern world and just think, read, pray, and relax.
 
TuAutem said:
Piously 🙂 Modest dress is required, and silence most of the time. Usually guests cannot enter the cloister, so you have to stay in the guests’ area of the monastery or go for walks outside. Generally it’s a time to step away from the modern world and just think, read, pray, and relax.
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are there any differences between visiting monasteries and visiting convents?
 
The main differences are between individual monasteries and how they do things. If you are a woman, some male monasteries will put you in an external building separate from the main guest area, which is reserved to men. With some convents, it can be the other way round for men. Others have everyone in a separate guest house and do not separate the sexes. It all depends on the place.

Almost all male monasteries, properly speaking, are Benedictine, and they welcome guests as a matter of their rule. Convents are much more varied, and some do not offer hospitality to guests (because they are following a different charism than the Benedictine rule), so it would be necessary to contact them directly–there is no general rule with so many women’s orders in the Church.
 
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