Category: Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

For the tenth anniversary of Summorum Pontificum

October 11, 2017

One of our dear Oblates asked me to write something about the tenth anniversary of Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Letter, given motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum. I...

Every moment of your life: a preparation for Holy Mass

January 29, 2016

Your whole life has been a preparation for this present moment. All that you have experienced, all that you have suffered, all that you have...

The Mysterious Effacement of the Host

October 23, 2014

Enter into His passion, Accept His Defeat We are at table with Jesus, listening to the words He is speaking to His apostles: “I tell...

Lex orandi, lex credendi: the ground of priestly piety

August 2, 2014

As a Holy Victim The Secret of the Mass for today’s feast of Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori goes to the heart of an authentic priestly...

The Mass — You Can’t Live Without It, Part II

July 7, 2014

Here is Part II of the talk I gave on Saturday: The Liturgy, Summit and Wellspring The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, affirms...

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.