Category: Priesthood

Monks who are priests (LXII)

December 17, 2019

CHAPTER LXII. Of the Priests of the Monastery 17 Apr. 17 Aug. 17 Dec. If any Abbot desire to have a priest or deacon ordained...

A thousand thousand lifetimes would be too little time to thank Thee

November 16, 2019

Convert Thou me entirely, O my beloved Jesus, that I may live every moment—up to and including the very moment of my death— with my...

Lest Thy Church suffer too great a darkness

November 16, 2019

Beloved Lord Jesus, I adore Thee, who art present here, with all the love of my heart. Sinner that I am, I would offer Thee...

Let not one of them remain in darkness

October 1, 2019

For the feast of Saint Thérèse Today, in the calendar of Silverstream Priory, is the feast of Saint Thérèse, October 3rd being observed as the...

The Grace of Knock and the Priesthood

August 21, 2019

In the Archdeacon’s Room Eleven years ago, on the evening of February 5, 2008, I prayed in the room where The Venerable Archdeacon Bartholomew Cavanagh,...

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.