Category: Saint Dymphna

Novena to Saint Dymphna

May 8, 2016

The great novena in preparation for Pentecost runs concurrently this year with the novena in preparation for the feast of Saint Dymphna, Virgin and Martyr. ...

From Our Novena to Saint Dymphna

May 14, 2015

Harry Clarke’s Window in Carrickmacross There is a magnificent stained glass window by Harry Clarke in Saint Joseph’s Church, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; it depicts a...

Saint Dymphna and Teenaged Girls

May 14, 2015

Teenaged Girls Among her many other attributes and advocacies, Saint Dymphna is the patron saint of teenaged girls. Most accounts of Saint Dymphna place her...

Saint Dymphna

May 7, 2015

Praying With Confidence A fervent crowd filled our oratory to overflowing for the first evening of the Solemn Novena to Saint Dymphna. Ireland’s Lily of...

Novena to Saint Dymphna Begins Today

May 6, 2015

Prayer cards with the text of the Novena to Saint Dymphna are available from the priory upon request. ...

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.