Here is the horarium of All Saints Convent in Maryland. Impressive!
5:30 am               Rise
6:00 am               Angelus
6:00-6:30 am          Meditation in the Chapel
6:30 am               Lauds
7:00 am               Mass
7:30 am               Breakfast
9:30 am               Terce
12:00 pm              Angelus and Sext
12:15 pm              Dinner
3:00 pm               None
5:00 pm               Vespers, followed by Angelus
5:30 pm               Supper
7:15-8:00 pm          Recreation
8:00 pm               Beginning the Greater Silence, until 9:00 am
8:30 pm               Compline
10:00 pm              Lights Out
         
The intervals from 10:00 am to 12 noon and from 2-5 pm are times of silence except on Sundays and greater festivals, and are spent in prayer, work, or study, according to each Sister's personal schedule.
Monday, September 22, 2008
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I, too, live in Maryland and fervently wish that the Greater Silence could begin in my neigborhood earlier than, say, 2am.
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