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For the first time since 1963, the traditional Breviarium Monasticum, containing the complete Divine Office for the entire year, is now available in a newly-reprinted, high-quality, two volume set.

Black flexible leather cover, 2 volumes, thin Bible paper, printed in red and black with gilt edges and 6 marker ribbons, 4.5 x 6.75 inches.

This Breviary contains all that is necessary to pray the complete Monastic Divine Office of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline for each day of the liturgical year. This is a reprint of the 1963 Monastic Breviary in Latin only. This was the last edition published before the reforms of Vatican II.

Comparison Guide for the Monastic Office Books Latin only Chant notation Contains Day hours with propers […]

This compelling collection of twelve essays, including one by Fr. Francis Bethel, a monk of Clear Creek, traces the forgotten yet vital history of Catholic agrarian life in America, from early missions and immigrant homesteads to modern efforts at family-based land stewardship. Together, these scholars reveal how faith, work, and land once formed a coherent Catholic way of life—and how they still can.

Softcover, 416 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.

The American Catholic Land Movement: Past, Present, and Future

• Presents a coherent narrative of the American Catholic land tradition through 12 scholarly essays
• Explores the impact of key movements such as the Southern Agrarians, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and the Catholic Worker movement
• Analyzes modern efforts—like local, family‑based economic initiatives and homesteading—as practical responses to social and […]
  

The 2026 Blessed Emperor Karl Symposium will host ten speakers, one of which will be Father Abbot of Clear Creek. It will take place on March 7, 2026, and more information about it can be found here.

Translated into English for the first time, Dom Prosper Guéranger’s Liturgical Institutions sets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries.

Softcover, 210 pages, 6 x 9 inches.

Originally published over the course of eleven years (1840–1851) in three ample volumes that span nearly two thousand pages, Dom Prosper Guéranger’s Liturgical Institutions sets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries at the hands of “anti-liturgical heretics” whose lineage is by no means exhausted. A vast narrative of astonishing breadth and penetration, the Institutions remains a masterpiece of analysis and synthesis, with striking relevance to our times. In this first-ever English translation of the Institutions, based on Jean […]

An online course, The Catholic Mass, will begin on September 24, and will explore the richness and depth of the Holy Mass through the lens of theology, tradition, and spirituality. It offers 14 lessons, in two of which Father Abbot of Clear Creek will speak. More information can be found here.

Translated into English for the first time, this brief but insightful work of Dom Prosper Guéranger, founder of the Benedictine Congregation of Solesmes, to which Clear Creek Abbey belongs, offers a supernatural view of history viewed through a Christian lens.

Softcover, 72 pages, 5 x 8 inches.

Dom Prosper Guéranger’s The Christian Sense of History is a profound meditation on the divine thread woven through the fabric of human events. In this work, Guéranger confronts the rationalist and naturalist interpretations of history that dominated post-Enlightenment thought, arguing instead for a view that recognizes the supernatural as essential to understanding the past. He presents history as “the great theatre where the supernatural performs,” emphasizing the transformative power of Christianity in shaping civilizations and guiding nations through Providence. Saints, martyrs, and […]

“Ad superna semper intenti – Having our souls ever intent upon the things on high.” The monk must be a soul full of desire, thirsting for God; the monk must be burning with the desire for eternity.

Thusly does Father Abbot Antoine Forgeot comment on his abbatial motto. This holy abbot died five years ago on the feast of our Lady’s Assumption, on the very 65th anniversary of his own profession and on the patronal feast of France and of Fontgombault Abbey, which founded Clear Creek Abbey under the inspiration and impetus of this saintly man of God.

Born in 1933 in southwestern France, Antoine Marie Bertrand Forgeot grew up in a healthy, happy close-knit Christian family with two brothers and one sister. He had a solid Christian education […]