Category: Our Lady’s Month of May 2018

Hatched!

May 13, 2018

Dom Cassian is chuffed with his new little feathered friend. Not long out of the egg! And Brother Thomas Aquinas handles his chick very gently....

The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Most Holy Eucharist, and the Cenacle

May 11, 2018

On this first day of the Great Pentecost Novena, I find it helpful to reflect on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s participation in the Most Holy...

Believed to hold the place of Christ in the monastery (II:1)

May 10, 2018

CHAPTER II. What kind of man the Abbot ought to be 9 Jan. 10 May. 9 Sept. An Abbot who is worthy to rule over...

The Strongest Kind of Monks

May 9, 2018

CHAPTER I. Of the several kinds of Monks and their way of life 8 Jan. 9 May. 8 Sept. It is well known that there...

Dilatato corde (Prologue 7)

May 8, 2018

7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. We have, therefore, to establish a school of the Lord’s service, in the setting forth of which we hope...

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.