Vultus Christi – Page 21

The loving example of the Good Shepherd (XXVII:2 and XXVIII)

March 5, 2019

CHAPTER XXVII. How careful the Abbot should be of the Excommunicate 4 Mar. 4 July. 3 Nov. For the Abbot is bound to use the...

Pope Benedict XVI: A Life Enclosed and Hidden

March 5, 2019

I will be spiritually with you. My state as a ‘cloistered monk’ does not allow me a presence that is also exterior. I leave my...

The charge of weakly souls (XXVII)

March 4, 2019

CHAPTER XXVII. How careful the Abbot should be of the Excommunicate 4 Mar. 4 July. 3 Nov. Let the Abbot shew all care and solicitude...

Ut Dominus illuminaret

March 3, 2019

First Vespers of Quinquagesima Sunday I was profoundly struck last evening by the antiphons and psalmody of First Vespers of Quinquagesima Sunday. Every antiphon —...

Let Thy sufferings be our wholeness (XXVI)

March 3, 2019

CHAPTER XXVI. Of those who, without leave of the Abbot, consort with the Excommunicate 3 Mar. 3 July. 2 Nov. If any brother presume without...

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.