Category: Divine Mercy

Misericordia in medio templi

February 2, 2019

The Mercy of God in the Midst of the Temple The Mass of the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemass) opens...

Ik vertrouw mij toe aan Uw Genade

April 8, 2018

Here, for our friends and readers in the Netherlands and in Belgium, is the Litany of Trust in the Mercy of Christ translated into Dutch....

The Confessor: An Active Instrument of Divine Mercy

April 7, 2018

Eleven years ago, on Monday, 19 February 2007, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Confessors who serve in the four major basilicas of Rome....

Men perpetually besieging the Divine Mercy

April 7, 2018

Pope Pius XI’s Apostolic Constitution, Umbratilem, of 8 July 1924, remains, not only for the Carthusians to whom it was addressed, but for all monks...

My Mercy is honoured in thy infirmity

July 22, 2017

“Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that He had said these things to her.”...

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.