Category: Rule of Saint Benedict

To prefer nothing to the love of Christ (IV:1)

May 19, 2020

CHAPTER IV. What are the Instruments of Good Works 18 Jan. 19 May. 18 Sept. In the first place, to love the Lord God with...

O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet (Prologue 11)

May 13, 2020

PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. We have, therefore, to establish a school of...

Who is the man that desireth life? (Prologue 3)

May 4, 2020

PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 3 Jan. 4 May. 3 Sept. And the Lord, seeking His own workman in...

Trahe nos, Virgo immaculáta (Prologue 2)

May 3, 2020

PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the...

Cum Maria . . . pervenies (LXXIII)

May 1, 2020

CHAPTER LXXIII. That the whole observance of Perfection is not set down in this Rule 1 May. 31 Aug. 31 Dec. We have written this...

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.