Category: Ecclesiology

Seven times in the day have I given praise to Thee (XVI)

June 20, 2018

CHAPTER XVI. How the Work of God is to be done in the day-time 19 Feb. 20 June. 20 Oct. As the prophet saith: “Seven...

Fathers, Sons, and Brothers

August 19, 2016

19 Apr. 19 Aug. 19 Dec. Let the younger brethren, then, reverence their elders, and the elder love the younger. In calling each other by...

The Church–Mystery

October 19, 2015

According to the Fathers, ontologically, the Church-mystery, the Church that is one and unique, precedes creation, and gives birth to the particular Churches as her...

We cannot make the Church

October 19, 2015

The Church is not an apparatus, nor a social institution, nor one social institution among many others. It is a person. It is a woman....

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.