Daily program of the monks

of the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady in Vyšší Brod (founded in 1259)

THE MONASTERY - A LIVING TRADITION!

• 4.15 Rising

4.30 Vigils (nocturnal office)

followed by meditation

6.15 Lauds (morning praise)

followed by a morning mass in the monastery (at 10.00 on Sundays and holidays)

Breakfast individually

8.15 Terce (on Sundays and holidays immediatelly after Lauds)

followed by Lectio divina (spiritual reading)

9:00 Benediction and assigning of work (except on Sundays and holidays)

• 9.15 - 11.45 Work (except on Sundays and holidays)

• 12.00 Sext and Nones

  followed by Necrologium (prayer for the dead)

  Midday meal

  Midday break (common recreation on Sundays and holidays)

14.00 - 16.30 Work (except on Sundays and holidays)

• 16.45 - 17.15 Lectio divina (from 17.15 in the summer season)

• 17.30 Vespers (at 18.00 in the summer season)

  followed by the Rosary (voluntary)

  Sunday: Eucharistic adoration and Benediction

18:10 Supper (at 18.40 in the summer season)

Common recreation (voluntary)

19.15 Lecture of the St. Benedict's Rule, Collationes (at 19.45 in the summer season)

Compline, Salve Regina

Silentium (strict nocturnal silence)

!ORA ET LABORA - PRAY AND WORK!