Morning prayer, oraison, mass, thanksgiving, little hours, Holy Scripture, spiritual reading, Vespers, Compline, rosary, adoration, Matins and Lauds, evening prayers, examen. I calculate 4 and a half to five hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n Quite frequently as well, nearly every day, administration of the sacrament of<\/strong>\u00a0confirmation,<\/strong>\u00a0which can take on average another hour, so now we have nearly six hours for spiritual exercises.<\/strong><\/p>\n What is left for study when one is the whole day long at the mercy of all-comers? Even so time has to be found for correspondence; two or three hours on Tuesday of each week have to be consecrated to the diocesan Council, Sundays are spent almost wholly in the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is not easy to define the times best suited to each task. If I could get to bed at ten o\u2019clock, I would get up at five, but it is usually nearer midnight than eleven when I get to bed. So let us fix on five-thirty. Let us be in the chapel a quarter of an hour later for oraison, to say mass, make thanksgiving and recite the little hours. It will always be close on eight o\u2019clock when I leave the chapel.<\/strong><\/p>\n As I am always made to waste time waiting for my dreary breakfast, I will go up to my room instead of going to the dining-room, and I will wait for someone to bring me up my coffee while occupying myself with the reading of the Holy Scripture.<\/strong><\/p>\n If I could count on no one pushing past my door until ten, I would dispatch a lot of business, write a lot of letters, but experience has taught me that every day one comes up against people in a big hurry and who will not be reasoned with. Even so means must be found to keep them out until that time. From then until dinner [ed. the midday meal] no more rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n After dinner some moments with the community, then one must escape from the house to work elsewhere. Otherwise the visits start up again and do not finish until evening.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cDaily Spiritual Exercises\u201d, undated page sometime after 1837, EO XV n 189<\/em><\/p>\n If each of us were to draw up a similar daily program of “doing” and “being replenished”, what would it look like?<\/p>\n \u201cRising very early before dawn, Jesus left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. Simon and those who were with him pursued him \u00a0and on finding him said, \u201cEveryone is looking for you.<\/em>\u201d. Mark 1:35-37)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometime after being installed as Bishop of Marseilles at the end of 1837, Eugene drew up an undated daily schedule aiming at a balance between non-stop demands of activity and the need to be be spiritually replenished so that the … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/schedule.png\")
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