Gregorian Chant Weekend 2017
Information about the upcoming Gregorian Chant Weekend has been posted. You can also register online.
Gregorian Chant Weekend 2017
Assumption 2017
Signum magnum apparuit in caelo…A great sign appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. (Apoc. 12,1.) Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, My … Read More
Praise in the Church
Dear Friend of Clear Creek Abbey, Though the beauty of its sacred melodies rarely echoes in the parishes and religious communities of our time, Gregorian chant has a way of surviving the vicissitudes of liturgical decline and renewal. Despite the … Read More
Still Building. . . Something Beautiful for God
Dear Friend of Clear Creek Abbey, As this mysterious thing we call “time” inexorably devours people and things, it carries all before it like a river moving toward the sea of eternity. But this mystery also fulfills the providential plan … Read More
Saints Peter and Paul 2017
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very Dear Sons, Where are the men in our day? Where are the giants? The book of Genesis tells us that in early times “there were giants upon the earth [in Hebrew, “Nephilim”]…the … Read More
Corpus Christi 2017
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very dear sons, In her spiritual Diary, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, the apostle of Divine Mercy, writes of a vision she was granted, one centered on the Last Supper and the Institution of … Read More
Corpus Christi 2017
Pentecost 2017
Emitte spiritum tuum et creabuntur, et renovabis faciem terrae. Send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. (Ps. 103:30) Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very Dear Sons, As … Read More
The Third Day of Fatima
Dear Friend of Clear Creek Abbey, On May 13th, feast of Our Lady of Fatima, His Holiness Pope Francis will have canonized at the sanctuary in Portugal two of the three shepherd children who were the privileged witnesses of extraordinary … Read More
Easter Sunday 2017
Brethren…Christ our Pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I Cor. 5. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, … Read More
Maundy Thursday 2017
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My very dear sons, In a real way it was the Lord’s own feet that would have needed attention during the Last Supper, even more than those of the Apostles. Not that Jesus’ feet … Read More
