Category: Paschaltide 2007

Alleluia, Ego sum vitis vera

May 8, 2007

Fifth Wednesday of Paschaltide Acts 15:1-6 Psalm 121: 1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 John 15:1-8 Repetition Today’s Gospel of the vine and the branches recurs frequently in...

Pax Domini Sit Semper Vobiscum

May 8, 2007

Fifth Tuesday of Paschaltide Acts 14:19-28 Psalm 144:10-11, 12-13ab, 21 John 14:27-31a My Peace I Give to You Today’s Gospel gives us the very words...

And I Will Manifest Myself to Him

May 7, 2007

Fifth Monday of Paschaltide Acts 14:5–18 Psalm 113B:1–2, 3–4, 15–16 (R.1ab) John 14:21–26 Grateful to Saint Jude We are grateful to the Apostle Saint Jude...

The Vine, the Branches, and the Call to Spiritual Fecundity

May 5, 2007

On John 15:1–8 The Source of All Fecundity Our Lord, in the fifteenth chapter of Saint John, raises us straightaway to the mystery of the...

Qui videt me, videt et Patrem meum

May 3, 2007

Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles John 14:6-14 Psalm 18:2-5 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 Today’s Antiphons in the Divine Office There is no doubt that...

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.