Yesterday was the feast of Saint Scholastica, the twin sister of Saint Benedict but today Father Abbot Antoine of the Abbey Our Lady of Fontgombault announced that Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Monastery is now an abbey.Dom Philip Anderson was named the first abbot of Clear Creek by the Abbot of Fontgombault, Dom Antoine Forgeot. Dom Francis Bethel the long-time guestmaster was named prior and Dom Mark Bachmann, subprior.
Pray for Abbot Philip and for the monks of the Clear Creek Abbey!
The Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault, France (1948) is a foundation of the Abbey of Saint Peter, Solesmes (revived in 1833).
Saints Benedict and Scholastica, pray for us.
Yesterday, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Dom Philip Anderson was named first abbot of Clear Creek by the Abbot of Fontgombault, Dom Antoine Forgeot.
Dom Francis Bethel, long-time guestmaster, was named prior; Dom Mark Bachmann, subprior.
Father Anderson & Father Bethel, who both grew up in Kansas, were students of the late John Senior
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at the Univ. of Kansas. Father Bachmann, a native of Vancouver, BC, graduated from Thos Aquinas College in California in 1982.
Thanks Peregrine for the update. May God give Dom Philip the grace to lead the community well.