Loreto Press
recently published a biography on the founder of the Congregation of Solesmes, to which Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey belongs: Dom Gueranger: A monk at the Heart of the Church 1805-1875 was written by Dom Guy Marie Oury, a monk of the same Congregation, and it was translated by Hope Heaney with the help of our monks. It can be purchased in our monastic gift store.
By the grace of God, the monastic adventure of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek has now endured and prospered for twenty years. From the initial group of 13 monks we have grown to 57, with several young men set to enter before you receive this letter. 
The original log cabin and horse barn have been replaced by a large church (still under construction), a spacious residential building, and a Gatehouse, where people come to have Holy Mass said for special intentions, to arrange to stay with us as guests, to ask questions, and to purchase monastic gifts.
Through many prayers and […]
Information about the upcoming Gregorian Chant Weekend has been posted. You can also register online at that page.
Information about the upcoming Gregorian Chant Weekend has been posted. You can also register online at that page.
Information about the upcoming Gregorian Chant Weekend has been posted. You can also register online.
Fr. Mitch Pacwa on EWTN Live welcomed Dr. Jared Staudt, who, on behalf of Fr. Francis Bethel, prior of Our Lady of Clear Creek, shares how Catholic Professor John Senior’s work remains relevant for today’s education and culture. If you would like to order a copy of the book featured on this program, John Senior and the Restoration of Realism, you can order it directly from Clear Creek Abbey.
Information about the upcoming Gregorian Chant Weekend has been posted. You can also register online.
Information about the upcoming Gregorian Chant Weekend has been posted. You can also register online.
The Conspiracy of Catholicity.
There is a grace about Rome, one that defies the centuries and the never ending attempts of darkness to overcome the light. Even when the marble columns will have cracked and fallen to sand, the spiritual pillars of Catholic truth, drenched in the blood of the martyrs and more eloquent than that of Abel, will continue to proclaim the victory of the Lamb. It has been a privilege for me to experience again that grace of being in Rome and of praying here, at the foot of the Apostles, for all the monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek and for all the friends of Clear Creek Abbey.
The construction of the Church apse and the first phase of the bell tower is now almost halfway complete. All the concrete has been poured, and now the masons are busy building the circular chapels and will soon raise the transepts of the Church to their definitive height. The project should be completed in the late fall, and enlarge the upper Church for our monastic liturgical ceremonies. We are currently trying to raise enough extra funds to finish the inside of the sanctuary with brick and stone. Thank you to all who have already contributed to help make this happen. Please pray for this project, and give thanks with us to God for the many blessings He has poured out on Clear Creek Abbey. If you would like, you can donate online […]
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.
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