Category: Precious Blood of Christ

Be the priest of His Precious Blood,

July 1, 2018

Priest of Jesus Christ, you are forever marked by His Blood. The Blood of the Lamb flows through you: It sanctifies your touch; It comes...

Covered with the Blood of the Lamb

June 30, 2018

I am completely smitten by Bernini’s little known depiction of the Blood of Christ. The Eternal Father contemplates the outpouring of the Blood of the...

By Thy Precious Blood, O Jesus

July 1, 2017

Like most chaplets or repetitive prayers, this Offering of the Precious Blood for Priests is meant to be prayed quietly and gently as a way...

The Most Precious Blood

July 1, 2010

Again, this year, for my friend, Father J.K., C.PP.S., on this Feast of the Most Precious Blood. Priest of Jesus Christ, you are forever marked...

Benedict XVI on the Most Precious Blood

July 6, 2009

Yesterday, after praying the Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of the Precious Blood of Christ. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what 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.