Category: Friends of Silverstream Priory

Letter on Loneliness

February 7, 2018

Mr Rick Yoder, a dear friend of the community of Silverstream Priory, published on Saturday last a profound and comforting Letter on Loneliness. You can...

Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness

June 28, 2017

May this new book by Peter Kwasniewski, published by Angelico Press, circulate as widely as possible and reach especially those in the Church who have...

The Terror and Joy of Worship, Part II

September 7, 2016

Julian Kwasniewski has produced another brilliant photo essay on OnePeterFive. Do not wait another minute. Go directly to OnePeterFive. You will find there a feast...

Mildred says . . .

August 31, 2016

“Run to 1P5 (with all suitable Benedictine gravitas) to read Julian Kwasniewski’s brilliant photo–essay on his recent experiences in Italy, notably in Norcia. Part II,...

Monasterboice and the Grace of the Divine Office

August 11, 2016

Silverstream Oblate Clarissa Kwasniewski writes on The New Liturgical Movement of her recent visit to Ireland: We went to Ireland. . . . No, we...

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.