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Three Hearts Pilgrimage 2024

A Monk2024-10-12T17:54:40-05:00October 12th, 2024|News|

The annual three day pilgriamge to Clear Creek Abbey concluded today, October 12th, with the Pontifical Mass celebrated by the Right Reverend Father Jean Pateau, Abbot of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, who gave the following homily

Right Reverend Father,
Dear Fathers and Brothers,
Dear Brothers and Sisters, pilgrims and friends of Clear Creek,

When I was a child, I loved to hear my mother repeat a little nursery rhyme: “No Saturday without sunshine”. Such a thought might seem strange to specialists in meteorology, strange to those who try to predict the weather. Not so for those who live a close heart-to-heart relationship with Mary, on a Saturday dedicated to her. Mary is the sunshine of our lives. And why is that? Because her fiat teaches us to say “Yes” to God, to say “Yes” to God’s plans.

Building Something Beautiful For God –
To Last A Thousand Years

Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey is a Benedictine community belonging to the Solesmes Congregation and, like other monasteries of the Solesmes Congregation, is to be counted among the institutes entirely ordered towards contemplation. It was founded in 1999 from the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault in France and is located in the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Clear Creek became an abbey in 2010 and counts 55 monks, who devote themselves to God alone in the hidden life, in silence and solitude, in constant prayer and willing penance.

After twenty years of existence, we are happy, by the grace of God, to have completed two large buildings and a sizable portion of our abbatial church. We completed the “Chapter House” in 2023 to accommodate the growing number of monks and provide a Sacristy, Infirmary, classrooms and the Chapter itself. Please help us continue this arduous, but important work for the glory of God.