Category: Cardinal Piacenza

Fire of Love, Fire of Mercy

June 17, 2014

During his tenure as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza’s letters brought light and comfort to priests and seminarians all...

Cardinal Piacenza: Holiness in Christ

April 6, 2014

Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, a Benedictine Oblate, is Major Penitentiary at the Holy See’s Apostolic Penitentiary. He is also President of Aid to the Church in...

Cardinal Piacenza to Seminarians

June 5, 2013

Letter to Seminarians on the Occasion of the Day for the Sanctification of Priests The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 7 June...

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.