Poor Clares Monastery
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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Daily Reflection Video
Liturgical Calendar
| 4th | Saturday |
The Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
Saturday, 13th week in Ordinary Time
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| 5th | Sunday |
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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| 6th | Monday |
Saint Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr
Monday, 14th week in Ordinary Time
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| 7th | Tuesday |
Tuesday, 14th week in Ordinary Time
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| 8th | Wednesday |
Wednesday, 14th week in Ordinary Time
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| 9th | Thursday |
Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and companions, martyrs
Thursday, 14th week in Ordinary Time
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| 10th | Friday |
Friday, 14th week in Ordinary Time
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| 11th | Saturday |
Saint Benedict, abbot
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I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
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