See Our Daily Routine
Schedules are there to focus and channel our energies in a particular direction. In the monastic life, schedules provide the structure on which our day is opened to the experience of God and inner growth in love. Our monastic world is rich, often rich with surprise, and always with the adventure of search and growth. Our days are full, because the One we seek is fullness itself.
Christ Is Our Day: Prayer, Lectio, Manual Labor
4:00 Rising
4:15 VIGILS
Quiet PRAYER of half an hour, LECTIO DIVINA
Pick-up breakfast ad lib during interval
7:00 LAUDS
Followed by MASS
or LITURGY OF THE WORD with HOLY COMMUNION (if no priest)
8:30-11:30 Morning work
9:30 TIERCE at work
On Altar Bread baking days, one sister takes the second baker shift from 11:30 until 1:45
12:00 MIDDAY PRAYER
Followed by Dinner
Dishes together
Optional siesta
1:45-4:00 Afternoon work
3:00 NONE at work
Pick-up supper anytime before Vespers or after Compline
5:20 VESPERS, followed by quiet PRAYER
6:00 COMPLINE
8:00 Retiring