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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:

• Shop at our Monastic Gift Store
• Read Father Abbot’s latest homilies
• View videos about the Abbey
• Listen to […]
  

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 10^th.

By the morning of January 2, 2008, much had been accomplished.  In 2003 a stone bridge had been erected over Little Clear Creek; the foundations for the church and a residence building had been poured; the first stone had been blessed by the bishop of Tulsa. Then, in 2007, the crypt of the church and the first residential building had been completed.  It was time to move into the permanent monastery.  Despite the cold temperature that morning (12 degrees F.), an army of monks, neighbors, and friends, driving every imaginable type of vehicle, was on the move, under the guidance of a monk with a walkie-talkie.  Teams in trucks and tractors took load after load up to the community’s new site.  By the end of the day the monks were entirely exhausted, but the monastery […]

Bishop Slattery’s Homily

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Even the most solemn moments in the Church’s liturgy are suffused with an indescribable joy, a radiance that elevates the solemn action of men. And this ceremony—by which contemplative Benedictine life is established with permanence and stability in our Diocese—solemn as it is, radiates with spiritual joy.

It could not be otherwise, for the joy we feel is the promised presence of Christ. He it is who calls us together to offer to His Divine Father that Sacrifice by which mankind is saved, our sins forgiven and our lives regenerated by the sanctifying indwelling of the Holy Spirit. With […]

On September 15^th, 1999, the main group of founders arrived in Oklahoma by plane from France. A pilot group had preceded them to get things set up to receive the main body of founders. On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11^th, 2000, the little Priory of Our Lady of Clear Creek was officially inaugurated in the presence of Bishop Edward J. Slattery of Tulsa, of Bishop Basil Meeking of Christchurch, New Zealand, of Abbot Antoine Forgeot, and of a host of priests and friends of the new community.