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Silverstream Priory’s Website Updated!

November 8, 2019 / Featured

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Of Stranger Monks, how they are to be received (II)

December 16, 2019

16 Apr. 16 Aug. 16 Dec. But if during that time he was found burdensome or prone to vice, not only must he not be...

Gaudete in Domino semper!

December 15, 2019

The image of Saint John’s vision in the Apocalypse (1360-1390) is by Jacobello Alberegno. I chose it because the Eternal Father is vested in a...

Of the Reception of Pilgrim Monks (LXI:1)

December 15, 2019

CHAPTER LXI. Of the Reception of Pilgrim Monks 15 Apr. 15 Aug. 15 Dec. If any monk who is a pilgrim come from distant parts,...

Of Priests who may wish to dwell in the Monastery (LX)

December 14, 2019

CHAPTER LX. Of Priests who may wish to dwell in the Monastery 14 Apr. 14 Aug. 14 Dec. If any one in priestly orders ask...

Let not an easy entrance be granted (LVIII:2)

December 12, 2019

CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion 11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. To him that newly cometh to change his life,...

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.