Category: Homilies

Thou knowest that I love thee

June 29, 2020

Homily at Silverstream Priory Feast of Saints Peter and Paul 29 June 2020 Now I know One of the remarkable things about the Office and...

4th Sunday after Pentecost

June 28, 2020

Introit (Psalm 26:1-2, 3) The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of...

Pater, ad te venio

May 21, 2020

Sermon at Silverstream Priory Ascension Thursday 2020 Last evening at Vespers, the Magnificat Antiphon gave us the words of the ascending Christ, the sublime utterance...

Norbert David Andersen (11 January 1926– 18 February 2020)

February 23, 2020

A HOMILY FOR  NORBERT DAVID ANDERSEN (11 JAN. 1926 — 18 FEB. 2020) Preached at a Solemn Requiem Mass celebrated by his grandson, the Rev’d...

The manifestation of the Spirit

January 19, 2020

Second Sunday after Epiphany 2020 Yesterday, in our daily reading of the Holy Rule, we began Chapter IV, The Instruments of Good Works. Saint Benedict...

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.