Category: Mectilde de Bar

In much talking thou shalt not avoid sin (VII:13)

June 7, 2020

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 6 Feb. 7 June. 7 Oct. The ninth degree of humility is, that a monk refrain his tongue from speaking, keeping...

Sic in sancto apparui tibi (VII:3)

May 28, 2020

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 27 Jan. 28 May. 27 Sept. Let him consider that he is always beheld from heaven by God, and that his...

Obedience acceptable to God and sweet to men (V:2)

May 24, 2020

CHAPTER V. Of Obedience 23 Jan. 24 May. 23 Sept. But this very obedience will then only be acceptable to God and sweet to men,...

Seek first the kingdom of God (II:7)

May 16, 2020

CHAPTER II. What kind of man the Abbot ought to be 15 Jan. 16 May. 15 Sept. Above all let him not, overlooking or under-valuing...

Amen (Prologue 13)

May 15, 2020

PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. We have, therefore, to establish a school of...

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.