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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

11th	Monday	Saint Clare, virgin
12th	Tuesday	Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, religious Tuesday, 19th week in Ordinary Time
13th	Wednesday	Saints Pontian, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs Wednesday, 19th week in Ordinary Time
14th	Thursday	Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr
15th	Friday	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
16th	Saturday	The Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday Saint Stephen of Hungary Saturday, 19th week in Ordinary Time
17th	Sunday	20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
18th	Monday	Monday, 20th week in Ordinary Time