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Abbey Editions, the imprint of the monks of Clear Creek, has just published for the first time in English, Little Jamie in Paradise, written by a monk of Solesmes.

Full of charm, simplicity, yet deep theological insights, this story of a young boy’s death and entry into Paradise is a unique work which will delight hearts and raise the eyes of the soul to heavenly things.

Hardcover, 44 pages, 6 x 9 inches.

Full of charm, simplicity, yet deep theological insights, this story of a young boy’s death and entry into Paradise is a unique work which will delight hearts and raise the eyes of the soul to heavenly things. A favorite of the monks!

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About the Author:

Born in the diocese of Autun in […]

Tomorrow, January 30, 2025, will be the 150th anniversary of the death of Dom Prosper Guéranger (1805-1875), who founded the congregation of Solesmes, to which Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey belongs.  This monk fed from the heart of the Christian life—the liturgy—and both explained liturgical spirituality in his most famous work, The Liturgical Year, and initiated the study of the Church’s liturgical chant, which led Solesmes to bear much fruit.

We can scarcely do any better than share the first few paragraphs from the General Introduction of the Liturgical Year:

Prayer is man’s richest boon. It is his light, his nourishment, and his very life, for it brings him into communication with God, who is light, nourishment, and life. But of ourselves we know not what […]

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 […]