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May is the month of Mary

2026-05-09T12:41:06-05:00May 9th, 2026|Dom Guéranger's Liturgical Year|

Each day during May, the monks of Clear Creek honor Our Lady by singing a special chant in front of her statue after the office of None. This old tradition of dedicating the month of May to the Blessed Virgin Mary recalls the tender devotion of our founder, Dom Prosper Guéranger, towards the mother of God as evidenced in this passage from his Liturgical Year:

It was for us that God had reserved the blessing of seeing thy lovely rising, O thou fair Morning Star! which sheddest thy blessed rays on the sea, and bringest calm after the long stormy night! Oh! prepare our eyes that they may behold the divine Sun which will soon follow in thy path, and give to the world his reign of light and day. Prepare our hearts, […]

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Clear Creek Abbey hosts Empress Zita Symposium 2026

2026-04-08T17:54:21-05:00April 8th, 2026|News|

Servant of God Empress Zita Holy Mass & Symposium at 10am on May 9, 2026.

Holy Mass in honor of Servant of God Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, followed by presentations by

  • our Abbot, the Right Reverend Dom Philip Anderson,
  • Monsieur l’Abbé Jacques Olivier, FSSP,
  • HIRH Princess Maria-Anna Galitzine, and
  • HIRH Princess Xenia Galitzine de Matta.

Catered Meal served by The Clear Creek Guild a Chapter of the Catholic Land Movement.

Reserve a seat soon at their website EmpressZitaCause.com.

Read Father Abbot’s words about Empress Zita in his letter “Humble Nobility“.

Books about Empress Zita

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Easter 2026

2026-05-13T17:14:38-05:00April 5th, 2026|Homilies of Father Abbot|

Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum…I arose, and am still with thee, Alleluia (Introit).

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

Some thoughts are too rich be contained within the narrow confines of human words. Some events too are beyond our telling, exceeding even the language of angels. The happenings of Easter morning belong to this category. Gone now are the great discourses that gripped the Apostles’ attention during the Last Supper—especially Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer; ended are the impassioned speeches that our Lord’s enemies multiplied like so many dark clouds before Pilate and Herod on Good Friday. All here, on this morning of Christ’s rising from the dead, is brief and pointing to things outside the realm of normal human existence. The Lord has truly passed “to the other side of […]

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Learn Gregorian Chant – Laus in Ecclesia Level One & Two & Three Courses 2026

2026-04-02T11:34:11-05:00April 2nd, 2026|News|

Clear Creek Abbey will host a week-long instruction in Gregorian chant at three different levels of instruction:

1) Laus in Ecclesia, level 1, for beginners: Gregorian initiation, covering the basics of Gregorian chant, that is, reading the neums, rhythm, modality, Latin pronunciation and verbal rhythm. This level targets the beginner or simply amateur in Gregorian. The student must know how to hold a tune.
Instructor: Kathy Reinheimer.

2) Laus in Ecclesia, level 2, for cantors: covering Gregorian Psalmody and the Divine Office, this level builds on and sharpens the skills learned in the first degree. Prequisites to join level 2: Level 1 or equivalent.
Instructor: Mark Donnelly.

3) Laus in Ecclesia, level 3, for directors of scholae: the concentration is on chironomy and the interpretation of bigger Gregorian pieces.
Instructor: Br. Mark Bachmann, OSB.

Opportunities to sing the chant: two Masses sung in Gregorian […]

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Annunciation 2026

2026-03-28T11:33:33-05:00March 25th, 2026|Homilies of Father Abbot|

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

It seems that despite of—or perhaps because of—His Divine majesty and absolute transcendence over all created realities, in relationship precisely to that work of His we call Creation, God retains a sort of child-like attitude, which for lack of a better word we might call “playfulness”. “I was with Him,” says Divine Wisdom, “forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before Him at all times; playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men” (Prov. 8: 30-31). Despite the tragedy that marks, first the angelic world in Satan’s rebellion, and then this lower world, beginning with the sin of Adam and Eve, throughout the dramatic story we call the History, characterized by so many ups and downs, […]

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St. Benedict Transitus 2026

2026-03-28T11:18:44-05:00March 21st, 2026|Homilies of Father Abbot|

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

As we have two feasts of Our Blessed Father Saint Benedict every year, there is no need today to multiply words and to produce a long homily. Saint Benedict was a man of few but extremely well chosen words. His silence speaks as eloquently as the words he wrote and uttered. We will do well to imitate on this feast that falls during Lent.

At Easter we will celebrate the passing of Our Lord, the Savior of the World, the Messiah, who passes out of the earthly phase of His existence. This will be Christ’s transitus or excessus (in Greek: exodus) as is said in the Gospel relative to His transfiguration.

And behold two men were talking with him. And they were […]

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The Idea of a Village Revisited

2026-03-28T09:51:21-05:00February 13th, 2026|Letters to the Friends|

Dear Friend of Clear Creek Abbey,

As many of you are well aware, over the years a significant number of families have come to dwell in the rural area surrounding our abbey. It is not yet a village in the truest sense, but a true village is surely taking shape. Many and varied are the reasons that brought these people to live near us, but one main reason was to be a part of what is sometimes referred to as the back to the land movement. Many of these families are now raising cattle and poultry and planting orchards. On a central area of thirty acres a cemetery has been established, and plans for a church, a parish hall, and even a school have been discussed. More recently, a Catholic Land Movement Guild has been […]

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Traditional Monastic Breviary is newly republished

2026-02-04T17:14:46-06:00February 4th, 2026|News|

For the first time since 1963, the traditional Breviarium Monasticum, containing the complete Divine Office for the entire year, is now available in a newly-reprinted, high-quality, two volume set.

Black flexible leather cover, 2 volumes, thin Bible paper, printed in red and black with gilt edges and 6 marker ribbons, 4.5 x 6.75 inches.

This Breviary contains all that is necessary to pray the complete Monastic Divine Office of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline for each day of the liturgical year. This is a reprint of the 1963 Monastic Breviary in Latin only. This was the last edition published before the reforms of Vatican II.

Comparison Guide for the Monastic Office Books Latin only Chant notation Contains Day hours with propers […]

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A Monastic Revival in America? An Interview with a Monk

2026-01-22T11:46:29-06:00January 22nd, 2026|Letters to the Friends, News, Videos|

Dear Friends,

Are we living through a renaissance in monastic life? And if so, what does that monastic revival mean for the rest of the Church?

Late last year, Fr. Ambrose Criste, O.Praem., of St. Michael’s Abbey sat down with our very own Fr. Patrick Carter, OSB, to explore these very questions. Their discussion is a compelling and timely one: they cover the history and legacy of the Benedictine monastic tradition, its striking relevance in contemporary society, and its indispensable role in renewing the Church and our society.

They also discuss the role that Our Lady of Clear Creek is playing at this pivotal moment in history—which makes you, our friends, part of this conversation, too!

I hope that you find this conversation as exciting and inspiring as I do. What we are doing here is historic work […]

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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.

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