3/26/2023 0 Comments Oklahoma city retreat catholic![]() ![]() ![]() Sext, None, and Vespers follow, later in the afternoon (12:50pm, 2:35pm, 6:00pm). In our experience, the monks are faster at Matins and Lauds than they predict, so aiming to be in the Crypt by 6:30am is ideal! Public access Divine Office begins with 8:00am Prime, followed by 10:00am Terce and High Mass. The Masses often begin around 6:45, but it changes daily based on when the morning Office ends the week you attend, there will be a schedule published. This is different for whole families attending, naturally! The public Liturgy begins with the Conventual Low Mass, the masses offered simultaneously, after Matins and Lauds. It’s helpful to know what you can attend and what to expect when planning for children of different ages to go along! First, men and boys who are staying with the monks have the ability to attend non-public Divine Office (Matins, Lauds, and Compline), eat with the monks for meals, and work alongside them during their work periods. The priority, I think, for those visiting, is the Liturgy. That’s our “why” for the family retreat - now for your “what” and “how!” Our aim is also to make use of the peace and atmosphere of the monastery to focus on specific spiritual goals each visit, having that immersion you would get from a structured retreat, just more of a DIY and laid back version centered around attending Liturgy. All of that is lovely, we just want to be at Clear Creek more than any of those options! So for our go-to family vacation aside from traveling to visit extended family, the monastery is it. We also have chosen this as our “vacation” style we aren’t big campers, world travelers, sight-seers, etc. Being able to attend the Conventual Low Mass (where each monk priest is offering his daily Mass down in the Crypt after Matins and Lauds, at the same time), to pray the Divine Office along with the monks, to attend daily High Mass, and to fully immerse yourself in Benedictine spirituality are reasons enough to make the retreat. After my husband and I each had gone for the first time, we decided we would aim to do a family retreat to Clear Creek at least once a year, with a few specific goals in mind. This visit was our first to stay in the Clear Creek guesthouse as a family (men and boys are able to stay with the monks, women are able to stay at the women’s house, and there is another family-owned property families can utilize if the guesthouse is booked). We have been visiting Clear Creek for two years I have been on my own once, my husband and oldest son have been a number of times, and we’ve gone now twice as a family. ) Here I hope to give a picture of how our family retreat worked this time, and share how you can make your own family retreat happen with the Benedictine monks at Clear Creek! I had an overwhelming number of questions - it’s like all of us are eager to find Our Lord and take a step out of this current world atmosphere, or something. Recently I shared through Instagram that we spent a few days at Clear Creek Abbey near Tulsa, Oklahoma, making a family spiritual retreat at the end of May. ![]()
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