Category: Church in Ireland

The victory which overcometh the world

April 8, 2018

Sermon at Silverstream Priory Sunday In Albis, 8 April 2018 Hæc est victória, quæ vincit mundum, fides nostra. This is the victory which overcometh the...

From the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, July 1894

August 3, 2016

Priests of Meath 122 Years Ago I came across Canon P. A. Sheehan’s fascinating account of the once widespread Association of Priest Adorers (founded by...

Foremost and Indispensable

July 9, 2016

The following conference was given at Evangelium Ireland on Saturday, July 9, 2016. Restore All Things in Christ One–hundred–thirteen years ago, on November 22nd, 1903,...

Patrick, bound fast to the mystery of Christ

March 17, 2016

Saint Patrick’s Day On this feast of Saint Patrick , I should like to reflect on his life and mission, and on the patrimony of...

Where is wisdom to be found?

March 16, 2016

Here is the text of the conference that I gave to the Legion of Mary Catholic Young Adult Conference at the Catholic Chaplaincy of Queens...

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.