Vultus Christi – Page 3

Suscipe me, Domine (LVIII:2)

August 12, 2019

CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion 12 Apr. 12 Aug. 12 Dec. Let him who is to be received make before...

To him that newly cometh to change his life (LVIII)

August 11, 2019

CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion 11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. To him that newly cometh to change his life,...

That God may be glorified in all things (LVII)

August 10, 2019

CHAPTER LVII. Of the Artificers of the Monastery 10 Apr. 10 Aug. 10 Dec. Should there be artificers in the Monastery, let them work at...

The table of the Abbot (LVI)

August 9, 2019

CHAPTER LVI. Of the Abbot’s Table 9 Apr. 9 Aug. 9 Dec. Let the table of the Abbot be always with the guests and strangers....

From the depth of the belly of hell

August 9, 2019

An Extraordinary Woman Seventy-seven years ago today, on August 9, 1942, the Carmelite Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, known in the world as Dr. Edith...

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.