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Poor Clares Monastery

215 E. Los Olivos St.
Santa Barbara, California 93105-3605
Phone: (805) 682-7670
Website: https://poorclaressantabarbara.org/

Mass Times

7:00 a.m. daily in our public chapel

Chapel Hours
Weekdays: 6:40 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. (approx.)
Sundays, Holy Days (or Solemnities), and First Fridays: 6:40 a.m. – 4:40 p.m.
Note: The chapel is locked temporarily when the Sisters are cleaning or decorating

Sundays & Solemnities
4:00 p.m. Benediction of Blessed Sacrament

First Fridays
Twenty-four hour exposition, 4:00 p.m. Thursday through Friday,
closing with Benediction at 4:00 p.m.

Monastery Hours
Opens Monday thru Friday – 8:30 a.m.
Saturday and Sunday – 8:00 a.m.
Closes 3:45 p.m. daily

Sisters’ Daily Schedule
12:30 a.m. Office of Reading (Matins)
retiring 1:00 a.m. – 1:30 a.m.
5:00 a.m. Morning Prayer (Lauds)
Morning coffee with bread
Lectio Divina
7:00 a.m. Holy Mass
Thanksgiving
Midmorning Prayer (Terce)
8:30 a.m. Adoration hours and
morning work period begins
11:10 a.m. Midday Prayer (Sext)
Private examen
Dinner, Angelus
1:30 p.m. Midafternoon Prayer (None)
Adoration hours and
afternoon work period begins
4:00 p.m. Recreation (1 hour)
Evening Prayer (Vespers)
Collation
7:30 p.m. Night Prayer (Compline)
Great Silence begins

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Liturgical Calendar

1st	Thursday	Mary, Mother of God (Octave of Christmas)
2nd	Friday	Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors
3rd	Saturday	The Most Holy Name of Jesus Saturday after Christmas Octave
4th	Sunday	2nd Sunday after the Nativity of the Lord
5th	Monday	Monday after Christmas Octave
6th	Tuesday	The Epiphany
7th	Wednesday	Saint Raymond of Penyafort, priest Wednesday after Epiphany
8th	Thursday	Thursday after Epiphany