Construction Update

Published On: July 9th, 2016Categories: News

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 now. God bless you!

Building Something Beautiful For God –
To Last A Thousand Years

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.