Vultus Christi

Oratory Closed to General Public

March 16, 2020 / Featured

In Response to the COVID-19 Corona Virus Crisis: • We are obliged in the interest of the health and safety of all concerned to close...

Chant at Silverstream: Listen!

April 6, 2020

The schola of Silverstream Priory recorded the poignant responsory, Media vita in morte sumus, trusting that it will, in some way, bring comfort and hope...

Letters, tokens, or any gifts whatsoever (LIV)

April 6, 2020

CHAPTER LIV. Whether a Monk ought to receive letters, or tokens 6 Apr. 6 Aug. 6 Dec. By no means let a monk be allowed...

Mectilde de Bar, 6 April 1698

April 6, 2020

April 6th is the anniversary of the death, or transitus, in 1698 of the great 17th century French Benedictine who, through her writings and her...

Nothing of My Passion has passed away

April 4, 2020

We have entered into the Great and Holy Week. We are, as an ancient liturgical text puts it, like a ship coming into harbour after...

Supplica to Saint Bernard Tolomei

April 1, 2020

Saint Bernard Tolomei (10 May 1272 – 20 August 1348) is the patron of people suffering from pestilence and of those who care for them....

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.