Vultus Christi

The right time and place (XLVIII:2)

November 28, 2019

CHAPTER XLVIII. Of the daily manual labour 29 Mar. 29 July. 28 Nov. From the first of October to the beginning of Lent let them...

This beginning of miracles

November 27, 2019

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal November 27th is the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, the last Marian feast of the liturgical...

Idleness is an enemy of the soul (XLVIII)

November 27, 2019

CHAPTER XLVIII. Of the daily manual labour 28 Mar. 28 July. 27 Nov. Idleness is an enemy of the soul; and hence at certain seasons...

The Marian Solution

November 27, 2019

It sometimes happens that souls in difficult and well nigh impossible moral situations betake themselves to a monastery in search of a solution. There is,...

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

November 27, 2019

O Mary Conceived Without Sin In Paris today it is the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal of the rue du Bac. I...

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.