From 10.30, Nun Michaela went to the chapel together with other novices to say the morning prayer (Tertium) for half an hour. The next half hour of kneeling on the hard floor with folded hands in prayer was difficult and painful for Nun Michaela, but she knew that this was what the rest of her life would be like. She knew that the real suffering would be her crucifixion in a few months, after which she would be a full member of the Order of the Living Passion of Christ, vowed to Christ. However, Michael's sister knew that by then she would be physically and mentally prepared.
After prayers, Sister Michaela worked from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., washing the floors in the novices' cells together with three other nuns. The goals of the novices were the same as those of the other nuns, i.e. modest. They had dimensions of 2 by 1.66 m (area 3.33 m2). There was a modest wooden bed, an image of the crucified Christ on the wall under which Michael's sister prayed, a small cabinet (in which there were spare robes, a rosary, a crown of thorns and a book for devotions in Latin and a Latin textbook. There was no toilet in the cell, novices had a common toilet at their disposal in a separate part of the monastery (each toilet was separated by a stone wall so that a nun could not accidentally see another nun's intimate parts. The nuns took a bath only three times a year: Easter, Christmas and on the anniversary of admission to the Order (and on the day of before their wedding with Christ before the crucifixion and the day before their ascension - crucifixion to death). In this way, by sacrificing their corporeality, they were to come closer to the Christ ideal by avoiding sin, and the corporeal body was to be dirty.
The nuns took baths in their cells and were given a large bowl and a sponge, a cloth and a bucket of water. First, they went several times to one of the wells to collect water in a bucket so that they could pour it into a bowl. After filling the bowl full and filling the bucket, they would strip naked and take a bath. While bathing (or changing clothes or undressing), they were supposed not to look at their naked breasts and intimate places, so as not to be tempted to masturbate, erotic or even sexual desire, which was punished with heavy penance. There were no mirrors in the monastery, and the sisters were not supposed to look at the clothes (loincloths and breast bands) of their fellow nuns, so as not to feel tempted to the sin of carnal lust, but they should look at their faces. Sister Michael knew these rules, her mind was to focus only on prayer, work and fighting the temptations of sin.