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Saturday of the Fourth Week in Lent - March 28th, 2009

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Visitors ask...Traditional Abbey for Retreat or Visits in the U.S. Using the Extraordinary Form

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I realized from the requests for "traditional retreats" that some are seeking a religious or monastic experience in order to discern a vocation or to "get away" from it all. Our Lady of the Annunciation Monastery is a Benedictine Abbey located in Clear Creek, OK . The Abbey is a foundation of the Benedictine Abbey of Fontgombault, France, the Congregation of Solesmes. Here is the Horarium , and the Liturgical Schedule . Visitors are welcome to Clear Creek provided they make arrangements in advance as described here. This detailed "sitemap" provides a good deal of information ; CDs are for sale and are exquisite . The calendar of events is posted , although I have subscribed to their newsletter which is mailed periodically. Clear Creek offers one a chance to see the unique Benedictine monastic experience without leaving the United States. The Monks are building a Monastery designed to last centuries. It is one place that many might want to visi

NLM: The Gregorian Missal (Downloadable Missal from Solesmes!)

Here it is! To quote Jeffrey Tucker: It's been my dream--and many share it-- that the Gregorian Missal could be examined by every Catholic musician in the English-speaking world . It wouldn't cause an immediate outbreak of chant in every parish. I know this. But it would change the debate. It would illustrate what we fanatics have been saying for so long. It would illustrate what Vatican II intended. It would instill a sense of the ideal. It would make it clear that chant is the music of the Roman Rite. It would provide direction for the future. The hermeneutic of continuity between old and new would become clear. We could begin again to stitch together our practice with our tradition. Glorious news: the Solesmes Abbey has made this possible. The monastery has given permission to the Church Music Association of America to upload a beautiful copy, fully bookmarked, online at MusicaSacra.com. It is here, the first universally downloadable presentation of the Gregorian Missal .