Our Day
« Let dawn bring news of your faithful love, for I place my trust in you;
show me the road I must travel for you to relieve my heart. »
(Ps 143, 8)
« The life of a Carmelite is a communion with God from morning to evening and from evening to morning. If He did not fill our cells and our cloisters, how empty it would be! But through everything we see Him, because we carry Him within us and our life is an anticipated heaven. » (Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity)
To achieve our ideal of a totally contemplative life, we try to establish in our day a harmony that holds together
silence, solitude, fraternal life, work and rest.
Here is an example schedule.
6: 00 Silent prayer
Lauds
Holy Mass
Terce
Breakfast
9:00 – 11:15 Work
11:30 Sext
12:00 Lunch
12:30-13:15 Recreation time
13:15 14:30 Rest
14:30 None
Spiritual reading Work
17:30 Vespers
Silent prayer
19: 00 Dinner
19:30 Recreation time
20:30 Compline
Office of Readings
Our lifestyle, with its concrete activities and the primacy given to prayer,
promotes a climate of continual prayer and personal and community praise.
