Franciscans of Halifax Language selection: Contemplative Life -our daily life- Home Spirituality Links Pictures Where to find us Who we are Our History Contemplative Life Active Life Franciscan Life Contact THE CONTEMPLATIVES DAILY SCHEDULE 5:45 Arise/ Ave Maria 6:25 Prayer OFFICE OF READINGS  7:00 MORNING PRAYER 7:30 Breakfast 8:00 House Cleaning 9:00         MASS 10:00       Private Formation/Work 11:50         MIDDAY PRAYER 12:00        ROSARY 12:30         ANGELUS /Lunch 1:00         ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT 4:00        REPOSE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT 4:05         Work/Personal Prayer/Reading 5:00         EVENING PRAYER 5:30         Dinner 6:30         News on T,V. 7:00        Recreation 8:00        NIGHT PRAYER 8:15           Free time 9:00         Grand Silence        Every Tuesday and Thursday are Desert Days. The sisters remain secluded as much as possible and pray alone. They eat together but in silence. This is a general framework as some circumstances allow for change.  " The contemplative nun fulfills to the highest degree the First Commandment of the Lord: " you will love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your strength, with all your mind", making it the full meaning of her life and loving in God all the brothers ad sisters."   Pope John Paul II, Verbi Sponsa Saint Therese of the Child Jesus declares:  "I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was ablaze with love.  I understood that Love alone enabled the Church's members to act..... Yes, I found my place in the Church...at the Heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be Love".  Manuscript B 3v Mary the dawn, Christ the Perfect Day; Mary the gate, Christ the Heavenly Way! Mary the root, Christ the Mystic Vine; Mary the grape, Christ the Sacred Wine! Mary the wheat, Christ the Living Bread; Mary the stem, Christ the Rose blood-red! Mary the font, Christ the Cleansing Flood; Mary the cup, Christ the Saving Blood! Mary the temple, Christ the temple's Lord; Mary the shrine, Christ the God adored! Mary the beacon, Christ the Haven's Rest; Mary the mirror, Christ the Vision Blest! Mary the mother, Christ the mother's Son by all things blest while endless ages run. Amen.