Category: Lent 2011

Mercies New Every Morning

March 30, 2019

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent John 8:1-11 Excessive Mercy Today’s Gospel almost did not make it into the canon of the Scriptures; it...

Come to Me and drink

April 11, 2011

Introit Psalm 55:2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for man hath trodden me underfoot: all the day long he hath afflicted me, fighting against...

Father, I Give Thee Thanks

April 10, 2011

Homily preached this morning at Holy Family Cathedral, Tulsa, Oklahoma Over the past three Sundays, brothers and sisters, we have listened attentively to the Gospel...

Love’s Great Labour

March 27, 2011

Third Sunday of Lent Cathedral of the Holy Family, Tulsa, Oklahoma 27 March 2011 Saint John makes a point of saying in today’s Gospel that,...

Cast the burden of thy cares upon the Lord

March 22, 2011

Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent For me, this old tabernacle door depicting Our Lord standing in a chalice and filling it with 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.