Contact Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey
Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey
5804 West Monastery Road
Hulbert, OK 74441-5698
Phone (918) 772-2454
Fax (918) 772-1044
Email guestmaster@clearcreekmonks.org
Clear Creek Abbey was founded in 1999 by monks from the Abbey of Fontgombault, France, itself founded in 1091. Monastic life at Fontgombault was re-established in 1948 by monks of the Solesmes Congregation, which has 760 monks in 31 monasteries, mostly in Europe. Clear Creek is the second monastery of the Solesmes Congregation in the United States; the first is a convent of nuns at Westfield, Vermont.
Clear Creek Abbey, which in February 2010 gained Abbey status, uses the 1962 Roman Missal. The choir is well-known for its Gregorian chant. Its first abbot, as of 2010, is Dom Philip Anderson, who had been the prior when the abbey was a priory. He comments, "We just follow the old monastic life. We pray, worship and do manual labor and give counseling to people... People look to this monastery as a new beginning, as a new element that has a solid backing in a long tradition of monastic life."
