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Oratory Closed to General Public

June 29, 2020 / Featured

Given the very small space available for retreatants and guests, our monastic Oratory will continue to be closed to the general public. ...

Our miseries, and it was he who bore them (XXV)

July 2, 2020

CHAPTER XXV. Of Graver Faults 2 Mar. 2 July. 1 Nov. Let that brother who is found guilty of a more grievous offence be excluded...

The Magnificat in a Eucharistic Key

July 2, 2020

Saint John Paul II “Blessed is she who believed” (Luke 1:45). Mary also anticipated, in the mystery of the incarnation, the Church’s Eucharistic faith. When,...

Te Deum. Te decet. Te igitur. (XXIII-XXIV)

July 1, 2020

CHAPTER XXIII. Of Excommunication for Offences 28 Feb. 30 June. 30 Oct.  If any brother shall be found contumacious, or disobedient, or proud, or a...

Thou knowest that I love thee

June 29, 2020

Homily at Silverstream Priory Feast of Saints Peter and Paul 29 June 2020 Now I know One of the remarkable things about the Office and...

Enter into thy chamber (XXII)

June 29, 2020

CHAPTER XXII. How the Monks are to sleep 27 Feb. 29 June. 29 Oct. Let them sleep each one in a separate bed, receiving bedding...

Situated amidst pasture land and forest in the eastern reaches of County Meath, Silverstream Priory was founded in 2012 at the invitation of the Most Reverend Michael Smith, Bishop of Meath, and canonically erected as an autonomous monastery of diocesan right on 25 February 2017. The property belonged, from the early 15th century, to the Preston family, premier Viscounts of Ireland and Lords of Gormanston. In 1843 Thomas Preston (1817-1903), son of Jenico Preston, the 12th Viscount (1775-1860), built what today is Silverstream Priory. Silverstream Priory is a providential realisation of the cherished project of Abbot Celestino Maria Colombo, O.S.B. (1874–1935), who, following the impetus given by Catherine–Mectilde de Bar in the 17th century, sought to establish a house of Benedictine monks committed to ceaseless prayer before the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar in a spirit of reparation. The community of Silverstream Priory holding to the use of Latin and Gregorian Chant, celebrate the Divine Office in its traditional Benedictine form and Holy Mass in the “Usus Antiquior” of the Roman Rite. Praying and working in the enclosure of the monastery, the monks of Silverstream keep at heart the sanctification of priests labouring in the vineyard of the Lord. They undertake various works compatible with their monastic vocation, notably the development of the land and gardens, hospitality to the clergy in need of a spiritual respite, scholarly work, and publishing.