Our Daily Schedule

5:30 am Rise. Divine Office.

6:30 am End of Great Silence. Angelus. Morning mental prayer on the eternal truths.

7:00 am Rosary, preparation for Mass.

7:30 am Mass, followed by thanksgiving. (Thursday: benediction after Mass.)

8:30 am Breakfast, followed by dishes.

9:00 am Work or classes.

11:45 am Bell for end of work.

12:00 pm Examination of conscience, Angelus. Dinner, followed by Te Deum procession.

12:45 pm Dishes and recreation in common.

1:30 pm Little Silence begins. Remission (free time).

2:00 pm Spiritual reading.

2:30 pm Afternoon mental prayer on virtue of the month. (Friday: Chapter of faults.)

3:00 pm Visit to the Blessed Sacrament and Our Lady.

3:15 pm Work.

4:30 pm Bell for end of work. End of Little Silence. Remission (free time).

5:00 pm Vespers and Compline.

5:30 pm Evening mental prayer on the Passion of Our Lord.

6:00 pm Angelus. Collation, followed by Te Deum procession.

6:45 pm Dishes and recreation in common.

8:00 pm Night prayers. Great Silence.

Wednesday and Friday after night prayers: Discipline in Common

9.00 pm  Lights out

While the Fathers are traveling for Parish Missions, the only obligations are half an hour of mental prayer, Mass, thanksgiving, rosary, Divine Office or its commutation, and short night prayers. The rest of the time is spent by the priests in preaching and hearing confessions, and the lay brother who may accompany them makes sure that things run smoothly, as well as interacts with the faithful while the priests are occupied in the confessional.