I’m a Benedictine Oblate of Clear Creek, and there have been some interesting articles written about Clear Creek over the years. But this one, from The Current, an alternative magazine in Oklahoma, takes some kind of prize:

I have great hope for the monastic life as being able to turn this mess around.

 

Merry Christmas to you!

 

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The Rev. James Jackson calls our attention to an interesting article about the Annunciation Monastery of Clear Creek from The Current and recommends it for some kind of prize.

The author of the article claims to be fascinated by dedicated communities with strong missions like NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs, Herbie Hancock’s music shop, BMW, and similar ventures and finds Clear Creek to be another such venture. The article by Ray Pearcey is a delightful mix of ignorance and insight. He has an accurate sense that something very special is growing and developing at Clear Creek but the notion of adult men devoting their lives and fortunes to God is apparently beyond his ken. 

I do not fault him for this lack. If we CINO’s would take seriously our duties to Christ, Ray would know many such adult men and the Benedictine spirit would not seem so foreign to him. Perhaps the Almighty Dollar will soon become worthless and the differences between Herbie Hancock’s music shop and the Monastery of Clear Creek will become more evident. 

Meanwhile, I don’t know of anyone awarding prizes for insight and ignorance but I do join Rev. Jackson in the hope that the spirit of monastic life will soon spread far and wide.

Laura writes:

You seem to have missed the irony in Father Jackson’s recommendation. I assure you he was not serious.