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The monks from Fontgombault (who founded Clear Creek in the Diocese of Tulsa) are going to repopulate a French monastery.
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from the journal la Croix in French
http://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Urbi-Orbi/Carnet/L-abbaye-de-Wisques-va-etre-reprise-par-Fontgombault-_NP_-2013-01-14-898814
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Also good to hear it stays within the Solesmes family of Benedictine abbeys – perhaps Fontgombault will be in a position to repeat this in a few other cases as well.
The cited article does not indicate that any of the monks re-populating the French monastery will come from the Oklahoma monastery.
It’s a shame something similar couldn’t be arranged in the case of Siegburg.
Re-read fr.’s comment, Mr. Morrow. He says, “The monks from Fontgombault (who founded Clear Creek in the Diocese of Tulsa) are going to repopulate a french monastery.” He is just pointing out that this isn’t the first time the Fontgombault monks are revitalizing monastic life, NOT saying that some Clear Creek monks are going to France.
Although I must ask, Fr.- how did you learn all those languages? Did you take classes? I wish I could just pick up multiple languages.
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Do you know Siegburg? I’ve been to mass there.
Mike Morrow
The monks will come from Fontgombault. BTW many years ago Fontgombault was offered Mont St Michel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5vlK5rQ1U ,forgot to add this to my comment, if its ok.
English translation of the French version (with some help from Google):
The Abbey of Saint-Paul de Wisques (Pas-de-Calais) announced Sunday, Jan. 13 in a statement that the monks of the traditionalist abbey Fontgombault (Indre) had joined the abbey and that “a relatively large group of young monks “should follow by next fall.
Founded in 1889 by monks from Solesmes Abbey St. Paul Wisques had grown to count sixty monks, but has seen in recent years its workforce shrink “to the point that it was seriously proposed to close, as it was done for abbey Belval last year, and see the monks dispersed to other monasteries of the Congregation, “says the abbey in a statement.
The traditionalist Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault (another daughter of Solesmes, founded in 1948) has, however, proposed “the challenge for the survival of her older sister, planning to send a relatively large group of young monks” . “The project could begin next fall, allowing our abbey to continue its mission of being a center of monastic prayer and hospitality,” says the Abbey.
According to our information, the monastic community was very divided on the arrival of numerous monks and religious could leave the abbey to other monasteries.
Refounded in 1948 by monks from Solesmes, Abbey Fontgombault kept the liturgy in force before the council and depends on the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei following, to Rome, the communities attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
JonPatrick’s translation of the article in La Croix is accurate. The possible dissension amonsgt the present inhabitants is sad; the good news is that Wisques, being in the Departement of Pas-de-Calais, is very easily accessed from UK.