Clear Creek is the second monastery of the Solesmes Congregation established in the United States; the first is a house of nuns at Westfield, Vermont. Fourteen years ago, Benedictine monks from the French Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault (a member of the Solesmes Congregation) arrived in Oklahoma to start the new foundation of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Abbey.In 1998, Most Rev. The idea was approved by the Chapter of the French abbey and on the feast of the Assumption of that same year 1998, a charter was signed between the abbot of Fontgombault and the bishop of Tulsa formally recognizing the existence of the new foundation. Rev. Having been erected as a simple priory in 2000, Clear Creek became an abbey in 2010. Joshua Morey, O.S.B. The community currently counts 50 monks. Friday, 5 September 2008 Clear Creek Benedictine Ordinations Contemplative Charism. Alumnus Priest Named Clear Creek Subprior. We recently made mention of a video which was produced about the Benedictine Abbey of Fontgombault in France, and which aired on EWTN. Our vocation is to consecrate ourselves to God alone, by means of constant prayer and joyful penance, in solitude and silence. Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa. I don’t think Clear Creek Abbey would have any issue with you being from another country. Please read my Disclosure for more info. Dom Antoine Forgeot, O.S.B., Abbot of Clear Creek Monastery’s motherhouse in France, announced the change in status to the community on February 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. It would be a shame if they were turning away vocations. It was a ranch located along Clear Creek. In February 2010, Clear Creek Abbey gained abbatial status. F ather Dwight Longenecker has a great article up today about Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey.I’ve written several times about this growing and vital abbey, and Father Longenecker nails it:. Hulbert, Oklahoma: Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey History of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey: In the 1970’s, at the University of Kansas, three professors inaugurated a Great Books program (Pearson Integrated Humanities Program, or PHIP) with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Already they have fifty monks and the average age is, I’d guess, about 32. We are an Institute of Religious Life among those "which are wholly ordered to contemplation" (CIC c.674) as Nuns of the Order of Saint Benedict. The community currently counts 50 monks. This post is a follow up on our move to be near Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma.. We are finally here. The monastery is being built in phases, and until the church was finished, Masses were said in the crypt. It was founded in 1999 from the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault in France and is located in the diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma. (’00) — has recently been named the community’s subprior. HULBERT -- A vision born 35 years ago on the campus of the University of Kansas and nurtured in a monastery in France moved closer to reality this week, as monks at Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery moved into their new residence building.