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Translated into English for the first time, Dom Prosper Guéranger’s Liturgical Institutions sets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries.

Softcover, 210 pages, 6 x 9 inches.

Originally published over the course of eleven years (1840–1851) in three ample volumes that span nearly two thousand pages, Dom Prosper Guéranger’s Liturgical Institutions sets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries at the hands of “anti-liturgical heretics” whose lineage is by no means exhausted. A vast narrative of astonishing breadth and penetration, the Institutions remains a masterpiece of analysis and synthesis, with striking relevance to our times. In this first-ever English translation of the Institutions, based on Jean […]

An online course, The Catholic Mass, will begin on September 24, and will explore the richness and depth of the Holy Mass through the lens of theology, tradition, and spirituality. It offers 14 lessons, in two of which Father Abbot of Clear Creek will speak. More information can be found here.

Translated into English for the first time, this brief but insightful work of Dom Prosper Guéranger, founder of the Benedictine Congregation of Solesmes, to which Clear Creek Abbey belongs, offers a supernatural view of history viewed through a Christian lens.

Softcover, 72 pages, 5 x 8 inches.

Dom Prosper Guéranger’s The Christian Sense of History is a profound meditation on the divine thread woven through the fabric of human events. In this work, Guéranger confronts the rationalist and naturalist interpretations of history that dominated post-Enlightenment thought, arguing instead for a view that recognizes the supernatural as essential to understanding the past. He presents history as “the great theatre where the supernatural performs,” emphasizing the transformative power of Christianity in shaping civilizations and guiding nations through Providence. Saints, martyrs, and […]

“Ad superna semper intenti – Having our souls ever intent upon the things on high.” The monk must be a soul full of desire, thirsting for God; the monk must be burning with the desire for eternity.

Thusly does Father Abbot Antoine Forgeot comment on his abbatial motto. This holy abbot died five years ago on the feast of our Lady’s Assumption, on the very 65th anniversary of his own profession and on the patronal feast of France and of Fontgombault Abbey, which founded Clear Creek Abbey under the inspiration and impetus of this saintly man of God.

Born in 1933 in southwestern France, Antoine Marie Bertrand Forgeot grew up in a healthy, happy close-knit Christian family with two brothers and one sister. He had a solid Christian education […]

We are happy to announce the release of Fr. Francis Bethel’s latest book, From Silence to Silence: A Benedictine Pilgrimage to God’s Sanctuary, published by TAN books.

Hardcover, 312 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.

In From Silence to Silence: A Benedictine Pilgrimage to God’s Sanctuary, Fr. Francis Bethel, OSB, a Benedictine monk from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma, draws from the centuries-old monastic tradition of prayer and his own personal experience to provide a spiritual guide for Catholics who want to silence the distracting noise of this fallen world to hear more clearly the quiet or “silent” voice of God. To understand and partake in the divine mysteries requires that we block out the cacophony of disruptions that plague our lives and separate us from God.

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“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 […]