Vultus Christi

The Festivals of Saints (XIV)

June 18, 2019

CHAPTER XIV. How the Night-Office is to be said on Saints’ Days 17 Feb. 18 June. 18 Oct. On the Festivals of Saints, and all...

After this let the fiftieth Psalm be said (XII)

June 15, 2019

CHAPTER XII. How the Solemn Office of Lauds is to be said 14 Feb. 15 June. 15 Oct. At Lauds on Sunday let the sixty-sixth...

Te decet laus (XI)

June 14, 2019

CHAPTER XI. How the Night-Office is to be said on Sundays 13 Feb. 14 June. 14 Oct. On Sunday let the brethren rise earlier for...

Ita Pater (X)

June 13, 2019

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 9 Feb. 10 June. 10 Oct. Having, therefore, ascended all these degrees of humility, the monk will presently arrive at that...

To pray continually, and never lose heart (IX)

June 12, 2019

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 9 Feb. 10 June. 10 Oct. Having, therefore, ascended all these degrees of humility, the monk will presently arrive at that...

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.