Day in the Life of a Sister - Student Version
Working and praying every day
In the early 1900s, this is how the nuns spent their day, seven days a week. They did not go on vacations. They could only visit their families one time every five years. One nun said, "Now that I look back, we did do a lot of work. But it didn’t seem like it at the time."
4:20 a.m.
Wake-up bell
4:45 a.m.
In chapel for morning prayer and Liturgy of Hours
6-6:30 a.m.
Mass
6:30-7 a.m.
Breakfast and change clothes (from black veils to white veils)
7 a.m.
Go to work (nursing, office, kitchen, laundry)
11:30 a.m.-noon
Change clothes (back into black veils) and go to chapel
Noon-1 p.m.
Lunch and free time
1 p.m.
Back to chapel
1-1:15 p.m.
Pray
1:15-4:30 p.m.
Change clothes (back into white veils) and go to work
4:30-5 p.m.
Change clothes (back into black veils) and go to chapel
5-5:30 p.m.
Dinner
5:30-7 p.m.
More work
7-7:30 p.m.
Pray
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Fun time (talking, crafts, playing cards and checkers)
8:30-8:45 p.m.
Pray
8:45-9 p.m.
Lock up
9 p.m.
Bed time
