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Celebrating the Feast of St. Benedict

2025-07-09T15:37:25-05:00July 9th, 2025|News|

“There was a man of venerable life, Benedict by name and grace, who from the time of his very childhood carried the heart of an old man. His demeanour indeed surpassing his age, he gave himself no disport or pleasure, but living here upon earth he despised the world with all the glory thereof, at such time as he might have most freely enjoyed it. He was born in the province of Nursia of honourable parentage and sent to Rome to study the liberal sciences. But when he saw there many through the uneven paths of vice run headlong to their own ruin, he drew back his foot, but new-set in the world, lest, in the search of human knowledge, he might also fall into the same dangerous precipice. Contemning therefore learning and […]

Corpus Christi 2025

2025-07-08T12:01:52-05:00June 19th, 2025|Homilies of Father Abbot|

Panem Angelorum manducavit homo, Man has eaten of the Bread of Angels, Alleluia.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My very dear sons,

Truly today’s feast is a magnificent feast, because we honor, not only a Sacrament of the Church, but the Blessed Sacrament itself, containing something even more considerable than the grace of God—which is quite extraordinary already—,God Himself, that is to say the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man. It is no wonder this most Holy Host is likened to the Bread of Angels and reminds us of the Manna that God rained down on the People of God, during their forty years of wanderings in the desert under the direction of Moses.

Why is it, though, that we partake so often […]

New from Abbey Editions: The Spiritual Life and Prayer by Mother Cécile Bruyère

2025-06-18T17:02:16-05:00June 17th, 2025|News|

Abbey Editions, the imprint of the monks of Clear Creek, has just republished The Spiritual Life and Prayer According to Holy Scripture and Monastic Tradition by Mother Abbess Cécile Bruyère.  This is a newly typeset edition based on the first English edition of 1900.

Softcover, 304 pages, 6 x 9 inches.

The Spiritual Life and Prayer explores monastic spirituality and prayer, deeply rooted in the Scriptures and monastic tradition. Mother Abbess aims not to satisfy the reader’s curiosity but to increase “in souls, even in this world, the desire of union with God, for the glory of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, who will be the object of their contemplation for all eternity.” She treats in these pages the nature of prayer, the transforming power of […]

The Reign of Grace in Mary

2025-06-09T17:58:36-05:00June 9th, 2025|Dom Guéranger's Liturgical Year|

by Dom Prosper Guéranger, founding Abbot of the Congregation of Solesmes, taken from his treatment of Saturday in Whitsun Week in Volume 9 of his Liturgical Year.

After the sacred Humanity of our Redeemer, which received from this holy Spirit every gift that could make it worthy, as far as a creature can be, of the divine Nature to which the Incarnation united it, Mary’s soul, and the whole being, were adorned with grace above all other creatures together.

It could not but be so, as must be evident to us if we reflect for a moment upon the meaning of a Mother of God. Mary, in her single self, forms a world apart in the […]

Ascension 2025

2025-07-02T12:17:38-05:00May 29th, 2025|Homilies of Father Abbot|

Ascendit Deus in jubilatione…. God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet. Alleluia.

Your Excellency,
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My Very Dear Sons,

We contemplate today a reality that might seem quite “out of this world,” because it truly is. The Lord, having accomplished the mission set before Him by the Father, returns to the place from which He came, if we can speak in such terms in reference to a Divine Person. He leaves in order to blaze the trail for us. He does not leave us orphans or desert us. He promised this.

One of the characteristics of our time is the tendency to want to keep everything here below. Even Catholics, including prominent theologians, have expressed acceptance for this focus on the “here […]

A Special Request from Fr. Abbot

2025-06-03T13:48:01-05:00May 22nd, 2025|News|

Dear Friends,

By God’s grace, and by the prayers of so many faithful, Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey stands before a unique opportunity: a chance to finish the construction of our monastery (including our abbatial church), work that began over twenty five years ago.

The next steps we take will be significant, both for our monastic community and for the renewal of the Church. This is why I am seeking the perspective of men and women of faith like you.

When you are able, I ask that you take a moment to offer your perspective by taking a very brief survey. This survey will not take long, and it is worthwhile: we will read and consider all responses.

I ask that you keep Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in your prayers as we work to respond to […]

New from Abbey Editions: Little Jamie in Paradise

2025-04-30T16:42:59-05:00April 30th, 2025|News|

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 […]

Easter 2025

2025-05-20T16:33:01-05:00April 20th, 2025|Homilies of Father Abbot|

At that time: Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James and Salome…entering into the sepulcher saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe…who saith to them: Be not afraid; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he is risen, he is not here…

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My very dear sons,

We live in tumultuous times. Despite a recent change in the mood of the nation (mostly for the better), the culture that destroys rather than builds is still with us. However, on Easter morning the most remarkable tumult is that, so to speak, of the Roman soldiers guarding the tomb. Something has upset their world.

Truly, ever since a certain Easter morning, when the unthinkable, the unspeakable, the unimaginable victory of life over death […]

Maundy Thursday

2025-05-20T16:17:09-05:00April 17th, 2025|Homilies of Father Abbot|

Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end (Jn 13:1)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My very dear sons,

This verse, taken from the Gospel according to Saint John, says it all. The entire mystery of Maundy Thursday is contained as if in a spiritual seed in these few words: the washing of the feet, the institution of the Most Holy Eucharist, Christ’s painful awareness of Judas’ betrayal, and the beginning of the Passion. It is all there. “He loved them until the end,” that is to say, to the utmost, until the last moment, until His human physical and spiritual […]

Mary’s Fiat

2025-04-11T16:05:04-05:00April 11th, 2025|Dom Guéranger's Liturgical Year|

At the close of our lenten journey, we are now at the threshold of Holy Week, in which the Church’s liturgy prepares the attentive faithful for participation in the Paschal mysteries.

Consecrated to our Lady, the monks of Clear Creek Abbey recall her role at the Cross, described well by Dom Prosper Guéranger (1805-1875), who founded the congregation of Solesmes, in this passage from his celebrated Liturgical Year:

The whole of next week is fully taken up with the celebration of the mysteries of Jesus’ Passion; and although the remembrance of Mary’s share in those sufferings is often brought before the faithful during Holy Week, yet, the thought of what her Son, our divine Redeemer, goes through for our salvation, so absorbs our attention and love, that […]

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