Letters to the Friends

Letter to Friends

brett2000-09-08T16:00:58-05:00September 8th, 2000|Letters to the Friends|

Dear Friends of Our Lady of the Annunciation,

Although it seems like yesterday that we were mailing you our booklet on the Inauguration ceremonies of last February, I thought it important to write to you on behalf of Father Abbot at this time, in order, both to fill you in on more recent events in the life of the community, and to send along the images of our building project you will find enclosed.

“And every one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, of wife, or children, or land for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundred fold …” (Mt. 19, 29). Thanks to Almighty God and to your generosity this page of the Gospel has already become a reality during the first few months […]

To Build Something Beautiful for God

brett2000-02-13T16:00:40-06:00February 13th, 2000|Letters to the Friends|

For those who do not know us, we would like to introduce ourselves. Our Lady of Clear Creek is a foundation of the French Benedictine Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault and a member of the Congregation of Solesmes.

Monastic life was established in France in the Fourth Century, but after the French Revolution, no monasteries remained there. In the early 1800s, a young priest named Prosper Gueranger was convinced that the best thing he could do to restore a rich Catholic life to France was to found a monastery under the ancient Rule of Saint Benedict. In the order of faith, the interior life holds the first place; that once assured, he thought, the rest would follow. He wanted to stick to the essentials of Benedictine life: prayer, study, and work in God’s […]

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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.