How do you think they are going to support themselves? It's not like they have a parish that pays them a salary derived from donations. Monks work. Always have; always will. Some monks make brandy, fruitcakes, package coffee, candy, train dogs, etc. These monks supply recycled ink and toner cartridges. They are not on welfare, so what's your beef?
Hmmmm I guess I have no idea why monks exist. Seems like a very strange concept to me.
When I was an exchange student in France, the family I was living with always made an effort to buy spinach from the monastery in the city. Growing spinach was the only way those monks made money, and my family wanted to support them.
“How do you think they are going to support themselves? It’s not like they have a parish that pays them a salary derived from donations. Monks work. Always have; always will. Some monks make brandy, fruitcakes, package coffee, candy, train dogs, etc. These monks supply recycled ink and toner cartridges. They are not on welfare, so what’s your beef?”
They should survive like the monks in Belgium and make beer. Good Trappist beer. The best beer in the world!
Well....if they don't have anything to do....
perhaps they could build a full size replica of Ely Cathederal....
only took the original builders 600 years from start to finish.