Category: Confraternity of Priest Adorers

Lest Thy Church suffer too great a darkness

November 16, 2019

Beloved Lord Jesus, I adore Thee, who art present here, with all the love of my heart. Sinner that I am, I would offer Thee...

What Have I Done to Thee?

March 3, 2019

Answer Thou Me The Feast of Reparation for offenses committed against Our Lord in the Sacrament of His Love (celebrated on the Thursday before Quinquagesima...

The Confraternity of Priest Adorers

August 27, 2018

Why another confraternity for priests? The Confraternity of Priest Adorers of the Eucharistic Face of Jesus responds to the need and desire of many priests,...

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...

O incomprehensible miracle!

April 15, 2016

A God makes himself our food! O astonishing prodigy! What are all the miracles worked by Jesus Christ during the course of his earthly 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.