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Silverstream Priory’s Website Updated!

November 8, 2019

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Sicut pater (XXXI)

November 7, 2019

CHAPTER XXXI. What kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery is to be 8 Mar. 8 July. 7 Nov. Let there be chosen out...

The welcome, happy, spacious peace of charity (XXX)

November 6, 2019

CHAPTER XXX. How the younger boys are to be corrected 7 Mar. 7 July. 6 Nov. Every age and understanding should have its proper measure...

Received back into the lowest place (XXIX)

November 5, 2019

CHAPTER XXIX. Whether the Brethren who Leave the Monastery Are to Be Received Again 6 Mar. 6 July. 5 Nov. If any brother who through...

Forget not the Holy Souls of Purgatory

November 4, 2019

The Funeral of Saint Odilo of Cluny, Jan Henryk Rosen, 1920 Catherine–Mectilde de Bar was known for her confidence in the Holy Souls of Purgatory;...

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.