Monastic Daily Schedule

Posted by Jourdan

I know that some of you have expressed interest in what our daily schedule will look like while we are doing our Monastic week, so I've decided to just put up a quick summary of what all the interns will be participating in while this Monastic theme plays out.

Here's the lowdown:

Beginning on Tuesday (yesterday)
-Meet in the morning to discuss in more depth of what silence and solitude really means, and why we are doing this Monastic lifestyle for 4 days.
-Dinner in candlelight, no electricity from 5-6pm.
-Worship on the Pinnacle

Wednesday (today!)
-Monastic morning, meditate on the 365 names of God, courtesy of John Paul Jackson's 'I Am' CD. Then practice lectio divina with one scripture for an hour.
-Monastic lunch, and another monastic meal at dinner with no electric lights from 5-9pm.

-24 hours of silence begins...NOW!

Thursday
-9am to 12 noon - still in silence, spent in meditation or whatever you feel led to do.
-Noon to 5pm - still in silence.
-Monastic dinner at 5pm where silence breaks, but still no electric lights from 5-6pm.

Friday
-9am to 12 noon - silent morning
-1-5pm work duties
-Monastic dinner, no electric lights from 5-6pm.

Then at 6pm, Monastic week is officially over!!

Saturday will be spent visiting New London's town Ski Joring competition, sledding, laughing, and eating lots of sugar and meat...if you want to, that is :)

Be blessed!
Jourdan M.

1st year intern