Category: Lent 2007

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....

Dominus Illuminatio Mea

February 27, 2015

A Mass of the Transfiguration It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its...

The Inner Sanctuary Beyond the Veil

March 29, 2012

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent Genesis 17: 3-9 Psalm 104: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (R. 8a) John 8: 51-59 Christ our Priest On this...

And the Truth Shall Make You Free

March 28, 2012

I preached this homily in 2007. It makes reference, therefore, to the reformed lectionary. I offer it today for the readers of Vultus Christi who...

The Two Annunciations

March 26, 2012

The Annunciation of the Lord is being celebrated today on the Monday of Passion Week; Friday will be the Commemoration of the Compassion of the...

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.