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 […]
On this Feast of the Saint Joseph the Worker, we want to thank you for your generous support. Once again, with the help of Divine Providence and through the generosity of our many benefactors, construction has begun again on the Abbey church. Read more about it, and please consider making a donation to keep the construction going! There are pictures, too!
We are delighted announce the launch of our new website: completely redesigned, it can be viewed on all devices. Hopefully the new site will help you participate more in the life of the Abbey. It will be kept up to date with news and Letters to the Friends, as well as the homilies of Father Abbot. Many thanks to all of you who support us through your online donations and purchases at our monastic gift store.
If you have not yet, please look at the beautiful new Home Page!
Here are a few features of the new site:
In May there will be a conference hosted by the Institute For Excellence in Writing. Attendees will be able to experience the Mass and Liturgies at the Abbey and hear conferences on how to rebuild Christian society one village at a time. Father Abbot and others will speak on how the Benedictine ideal is the answer to many of our contemporary cultural woes.
Read the Father Abbot’s Letter to the Friends on St. Benedict’s Option.
Another productive and successful Abbey Work Day drew the largest crowd ever – over 500 workers!
“Our heartfelt thanks go out to all who made Work Day 2016 such a success. It would be impossible to calculate the value of all the work done. We monks are very touched, not only by the generous help received, but by the spirit of faith in which all was accomplished. May God bless all of you and may Our Lady of the Annunciation be close to you.” +Abbot Philip Anderson, Our Lady of Clear Creek
See pictures from the Work Day in the Gallery.
On February 10, 2010, having gathered the community in the Chapter Room, Dom Antoine Forgeot, abbot of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, announced to the monks the canonical elevation of the simple Priory of Our Lady of Clear Creek to the status of an autonomous abbey. The next day, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Father Philip Anderson was named the first abbot of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey. The blessing of the new abbot took place on the following April 10th.
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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