Whatever your background or beliefs, the monks invite you to join the Community to pray the Divine Office or to celebrate Mass. The Divine Office (six times daily) is prayed in the Monastery Oratory (unless noted otherwise) and Mass is celebrated Monday through Saturday in the Monastery Oratory and Sunday in the Abbey Church.

Monday to Saturday
4.45am
Rise
5.00am Vigils
Breakfast /Private Prayer
6.30am Lauds
7.30am* Conventual Mass (in Monastery Oratory)
Breakfast/Free Time
9.00am Work
12.00pm Angelus
Lectio Divina/Silent Prayer
Midday Prayer
Silent Lunch (with reading)
Recreation
1.30pm Siesta
2.30pm Afternoon Prayer (followed by rosary on Mondays)
2.45pm Work
4.15pm Afternoon Tea/Free Time
5.45pm Lectio Divina/Quiet Time
6.25pm Statio
6.30pm Vespers
Silent Tea (with reading and music)
News/Free Time
8.00pm** Lectio Divina/Silent Prayer
Compline
Great Silence (until 8.00 a.m.)
Sunday
5.45am
Rise
6.00am Lauds
Breakfast/Private Prayer
8.45am Confessions
9.00am Conventual Mass (in church)
12.00pm Angelus
Lectio Divina/Silent Prayer
Midday Prayer
Silent Lunch (with reading)
Recreation
1.30pm Siesta
4.15pm Afternoon Tea
5.30pm Vespers (in church)
6.30pm Silent Tea (with music)
7.30pm Compline
TV – Otherwise Great Silence (until 8.00 a.m.)
Please note there are variations on Saturdays

*8.30am Choir Practice
**8.00pm Vigils of Sunday

Guests joining the monks for prayer are encouraged to arrive five minutes early and to take a booklet as they enter. Prayers take between fifteen and thirty minutes and times are subject to change.

For more information contact the Organist and Liturgy Coordinator at organist@newnorcia.com.au