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April 9, 2021 / Featured

This site is also closing, at least for now. As always, information about Silverstream Priory is available at the priory website.

Oratory Closed to General Public

June 29, 2020 / Featured

Given the very small space available for retreatants and guests, our monastic Oratory remains closed to the general public. ...

Silence stilling every human utterance (VII:11)

December 15, 2020

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 8 Feb. 9 June. 9 Oct. The eleventh degree of humility is, that when a monk speaketh, he do so gently...

Eating outside the monastery (LI)

December 15, 2020

CHAPTER LI. Of the Brethren who go not very far off 2 Apr. 2 Aug. 2 Dec. Let not the brother who is sent out...

Maria, Rosa Mystica

December 7, 2020

Prayer, Reparation, Penance for Priests Seventy-three years ago, in the spring of 1947 the Blessed Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to Pierina Gilli, a nurse, in...

Supplica to Our Lady of La Salette

September 10, 2020

O Blessed Virgin Mary, beautiful Lady of La Salette, glorious Queen of heaven and Mother of mercies, thou didst come down out of heaven from...

Quid dulcius nobis? (Prologue 3)

September 3, 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...

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.