Category: Lent 2008

I Sought Him

March 10, 2012

Saturday of the Second Week of Lent Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 Psalm 102:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Draw Near to Hear The first line...

And Cleanse Me From My Sin

March 16, 2009

Monday Within the Third Week of Lent 2 Kings 5:1-15a Luke 4:24-30 Water What is the link between yesterday’s liturgy and today’s? It is water....

To Thee Belong Mercy and Forgiveness

March 9, 2009

Monday Within the Second Week of Lent Daniel 9:4-10 Luke 6: 36-38 I Set My Face to the Lord I don’t know why the editors...

And Healing to the Wounded Grant

March 11, 2008

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Numbers 21: 4–9 Psalm 101: 1–2, 5–17, 18–20 (R. 1) John 8: 21–30 The Serpent and the Cross...

Lazare, veni foras!

March 9, 2008

Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent John 11:1-45 Caravaggio’s Resurrection of Lazarus depicts a dead man stunned by his sudden return to life. 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.