Category: Paschaltide 2008

Quaesivi Vultum Tuum

May 4, 2008

Seventh Sunday of Paschaltide Sunday of the Holy Face of Christ The Most Holy Face of Christ is celebrated on various days of the liturgical...

The Pentecost Novena

May 2, 2008

We began the Solemn Pentecost Novena this morning at the Monastery of the Glorious Cross by singing the Veni, Creator Spiritus at the end of...

I Will Pray My Father

April 26, 2008

Sixth Sunday of Pascha, Year A Acts 8: 5-8, 14-17 1 Peter 3: 15-18 John 14:15-21 At First Vespers The Magnificat Antiphon at First Vespers...

Paenitentiam Ad Vitam

April 14, 2008

The Benedictine abbot in the photo, an Irishman, is Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923). Upon the recommendation of a Trappist Father, I started reading Abbot Marmion...

Verba vitae aeternae habes

April 12, 2008

Third Saturday of Paschaltide Acts 9:31-42 John 6:60-69 Paschaltide With Mary There is a particular grace attached to the celebration of these Saturdays of 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.