The monks at Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey are entirely ordered toward contemplation, devoting themselves to God alone in silence and in solitude, in constant prayer, and willing penance. Clear Creek Abbey is a Benedictine Community founded in 1999 from the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault in France. Having been erected as a simple priory in 2000, Clear Creek became an abbey in 2010 and currently counts 55 monks.