Vultus Christi – Page 2

Blessed Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, O.S.B.

August 31, 2019

Our Contemporary The Benedictine calendar of the saints, like that of the Universal Church, grows as the Church makes her pilgrim way through history. In...

Suffer not your heart to admit anger and passion (LXX)

August 28, 2019

CHAPTER LXX. That no one presume to strike another 28 Apr. 28 Aug. 28 Dec. Let every occasion of presumption be banished from the Monastery....

Are not these human thoughts? (LXIX)

August 27, 2019

CHAPTER LXIX. That no one presume to defend another in the Monastery 27 Apr. 27 Aug. 27 Dec. Care must be taken that on no...

I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me (LXVIII)

August 26, 2019

CHAPTER LXVIII. If a Brother be commanded to do Impossibilities 26 Apr. 26 Aug. 26 Dec. If on any brother there be laid commands that...

Sent on a journey (LXVII)

August 25, 2019

CHAPTER LXVII. Of Brethren who are sent on a Journey 25 Apr. 25 Aug. 25 Dec. Let the brethren who are about to be sent...

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.