(Santa Barbara) Poor Clares Monastery

7:00 a.m. daily in our public chapel

Chapel Hours
Weekdays: 6:40 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. (approx.)
Sundays, Holy Days (or Solemnities), and First Fridays: 6:40 a.m. – 4:40 p.m.
Note: The chapel is locked temporarily when the Sisters are cleaning or decorating

Sundays & Solemnities
4:00 p.m. Benediction of Blessed Sacrament

First Fridays
Twenty-four hour exposition, 4:00 p.m. Thursday through Friday,
closing with Benediction at 4:00 p.m.

Monastery Hours
Opens Monday thru Friday – 8:30 a.m.
Saturday and Sunday – 8:00 a.m.
Closes 3:45 p.m. daily

Sisters’ Daily Schedule
12:30 a.m. Office of Reading (Matins)
retiring 1:00 a.m. – 1:30 a.m.
5:00 a.m. Morning Prayer (Lauds)
Morning coffee with bread
Lectio Divina
7:00 a.m. Holy Mass
Thanksgiving
Midmorning Prayer (Terce)
8:30 a.m. Adoration hours and
morning work period begins
11:10 a.m. Midday Prayer (Sext)
Private examen
Dinner, Angelus
1:30 p.m. Midafternoon Prayer (None)
Adoration hours and
afternoon work period begins
4:00 p.m. Recreation (1 hour)
Evening Prayer (Vespers)
Collation
7:30 p.m. Night Prayer (Compline)
Great Silence begins