Father Abbot’s Message from Rome

Published On: September 14th, 2016Categories: News

The Conspiracy of Catholicity.

There is a grace about Rome, one that defies the centuries and the never ending attempts of darkness to overcome the light. Even when the marble columns will have cracked and fallen to sand, the spiritual pillars of Catholic truth, drenched in the blood of the martyrs and more eloquent than that of Abel, will continue to proclaim the victory of the Lamb. It has been a privilege for me to experience again that grace of being in Rome and of praying here, at the foot of the Apostles, for all the monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek and for all the friends of Clear Creek Abbey.

The Conspiracy of Catholicity.

There is a grace about Rome, one that defies the centuries and the never ending attempts of darkness to overcome the light. Even when the marble columns will have cracked and fallen to sand, the spiritual pillars of Catholic truth, drenched in the blood of the martyrs and more eloquent than that of Abel, will continue to proclaim the victory of the Lamb. It has been a privilege for me to experience again that grace of being in Rome and of praying here, at the foot of the Apostles, for all the monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek and for all the friends of Clear Creek Abbey.

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.