Weekday Schedule

AM

• 5:50 Mental Prayer*
• 6:45 Morning Prayer in the Chapel
• 7:15 Eucharist
• Thanksgiving and Midmorning Prayer
• Breakfast
• Duties/Class for Novitiate
• 11:45 Midday Prayer

PM

• 12:00 Dinner, followed by recreation
• Mid-afternoon Prayer
• Spiritual reading
• Free time for walking or other exercises
• Duties
• 4:30 Office of Readings and Evening Prayer
• Mental Prayer*
• 6:00 Supper
• Compline
• Recreation

* Mental Prayer is a Carmelite form of prayer that may be understood in general terms as personal meditation/contemplation. It is essential to our vocation of prayer for the Church as handed down by St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila).  

~ Daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament in private.  The Rosary may be said in private.