Event: Vespers and Fundraising Dinner, Oklahoma (USA)

For interested parties:

In Honor of Our Lady of the Annunciation
Vespers at the Cathedral with the Monks

His Excellency Edward J. Slattery, Bishop of Tulsa, is hosting an event in support of the Benedictine Monks of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Monastery.

Saturday, November 5, 2005 at 6:30pm

The evening will begin at Holy Family Cathedral with Vespers, sung in Gregorian chant (open to all), followed by a reception and dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. You will have an opportunity to meet the monks and the many friends of the monastery, including Thomas Gordon Smith, distinguished architect and professor of the University of Notre Dame. Keynote speaker: Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, theologian, columnist and editor-in-chief of First Things magazine.

More information - including sponsorship, attendance and travel arrangements - is available at the Clear Creek Monastery website. Although not mentioned, it seems to be a fundraiser for Phase I of their building project.