Category: Confraternity of Priest Adorers

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...

An Intercessor for Priests

February 28, 2015

Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil–Martiny Yesterday, 27 February, was the dies natalis and liturgical memorial of Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil Martiny. Born to upper...

In Prayer for Priests: January 6-14

January 6, 2015

Friends The image depicts two good priests who were friends, Saint Jean-Marie Vianney and Saint Peter Julian Eymard. Saints flourish in relationship with each other....

More About Lectio Divina

November 12, 2014

I realized, after I spoke to the fine priests of the Archdiocese of Armagh on Monday evening last, that there was much more that I...

Confraternity of Priest Adorers

June 6, 2013

On the Octave Day of Corpus Christi we keep the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, as given in the Benedictine breviary...

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.