Maria Regina Mater Monastery

Monastic Schedule

Horarium: Our Daily Schedule

In the monastery everything is directed to the search for the face of God, everything is reduced to the essential, because the only thing that matters is what leads to Him.
—Verbi Sponsa

12:00 AM	Matins: (Office of Readings) with the Blessed Sacrament exposed
4:55 AM	Rise
5:20 AM	Community Prayers followed by Lauds (Morning Prayer) and the Angelus Duties/private prayer/lectio
~6:10 AM	Veni Creator/Terce (Midmorning Prayer)
6:30 AM	The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (open to the public)
After Mass:	Thanksgiving and cross prayer Break/Breakfast—coffee and bread
8:00 AM	Exposition and Holy Hours Work period and Novitiate Class
11:10 AM	Sext (Midday Prayer) followed by the Litany of St. Joseph and Examen
11:45 AM	Dinner (and the Angelus) followed by dishes
1:00 PM	Quiet time: free for Lectio Divina, rest, a walk outdoors, etc.
1:30 PM	None (Midafternoon Prayer) followed by a cross prayer and other community prayers Fridays: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by None and Holy Hours
2:00 PM	Work Period
Mondays-Thursdays and Saturdays:
3:40 PM	Eucharistic Adoration with the Rosary and mental prayer Fridays: 4:10 Rosary
4:40 PM	Vespers (Evening Prayer)
5:00 PM	Duties/spiritual reading
5:30 PM	Collation (a light meal) followed by dishes
6:30 PM	Recreation
7:30 PM	Community Prayers followed by a cross prayer and Compline (Night Prayer)
9:15 PM	Lights Out
Modifications in Sunday Horarium: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass until after Vespers Rosary—after None Bell for Vespers 4:15

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