12:00 (midnight) Rise
12:15 A.M. (in Church)
Matins
Return to cell, prayer and retire to bed
6:00 A.M. Rise
Prime, prayer, spiritual reading, possibly study
Assistance at the brother's
Mass, the Community Mass or both, as he wishes
9:15 A.M. Work begins
11:45 A.M. Return to cell
Office of Sext
Dinner, (always meatless, on Fridays normally
of bread and water only)
Office of None
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament if desired
1:15 P.M. Work resumed
4:30 P.M. Return to cell
5:00 P.M. (in Church or in cell)
Vespers
5:30 P.M. (in cell)
Prayer, spiritual reading and study
Supper except on Fridays and during
Advent and Lent, when a simple collation of bread and, except on Fridays, a drink are taken.
8:00 P.M. Compline
Retire to bed
The brother's life is especially well-balanced, partaking as it does in the solitude of the
cell and in work.
Charterhouse of the Transfiguration
Vocational Booklet - 1987
Brothers
The Schedule