Category: Chastity

Et semper superexaltet misericordiam iudicio (LXIV:2)

December 21, 2018

21 Apr. 21 Aug. 21 Dec. Let him that hath been appointed Abbot always bear in mind what a burden he hath received, and to...

Little children, love one another (IV:4)

May 22, 2018

21 Jan. 22 May. 21 Sept. 62. Daily to fulfil by one’s deeds the commandments of God. 63. To love chastity. 64. To hate no...

This sacrifice, prepared for the glory of Thy holy Name

April 10, 2017

Last evening at recreation, one of the brethren mentioned that he had read something recently in which Lenten fasting was presented, before all else, as...

The Wound of Divine Love

April 8, 2017

A popular Jesuit priest–writer, appreciated by secular pundits for his congenial urbanity and wit, recently wrote an essay addressing the struggle of some priests with...

Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation 12

September 21, 2015

Disclaimer: The series of letters entitled “Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation”, while based on the real questions of a number of men in various places...

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.