Category: Prayers of Mine

Et pro eis ego sanctifico meipsum

March 7, 2019

Photograph: Greek Catholic Cathedral of Bucharest These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come, glorify...

Vere tu es Deus absconditus

December 10, 2018

One request I have ever made of the Lord, let me claim it still, to dwell in the Lord’s house my whole life long. V....

Praying for Priests

November 15, 2018

O my beloved Jesus, I bring Thee the poverty of Thy priests, that Thou wouldst enrich them. I bring Thee the emptiness of Thy priests,...

A Benedictine Litany of Humility

October 17, 2018

On Chapter VII of the Holy Rule Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy...

Supplica to Saint Vincent de Paul

July 19, 2018

Thank You to Saint Vincent de Paul A Supplica is a prayer of supplication composed according to a certain literary genre that remains popular in...

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.