Category: Pope Benedict XVI

The loving example of the Good Shepherd (XXVII:2 and XXVIII)

March 5, 2019

CHAPTER XXVII. How careful the Abbot should be of the Excommunicate 4 Mar. 4 July. 3 Nov. For the Abbot is bound to use the...

Pope Benedict XVI: A Life Enclosed and Hidden

March 5, 2019

I will be spiritually with you. My state as a ‘cloistered monk’ does not allow me a presence that is also exterior. I leave my...

Le sourire de la Vierge

February 11, 2019

Here is the magnificent homily that Pope Benedict XVI delivered at Holy Mass at 15 September 2008, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows on...

Loreto: A Place and a Grace

December 10, 2018

Pope Benedict XVI preached at Loreto on 4 October 2012. On this feast of the Holy House of the Incarnation, Pope Benedict’s words invite us...

Through the tangle of thorns

November 16, 2018

She had a vision of a young man who, in order to guide her through the tangle of thorns that surrounded her soul, took her...

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.