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Saint Luke: A Gospel of Icons

October 18, 2006

OCTOBER 18 SAINT LUKE, EVANGELIST 2 Timothy 4: 10-17a Psalm 144: 10-11, 12-13ab, 17-18 (R: cf. 12) Luke 10:1-9 The Evangelist Saint Luke comes to...

The Rosary: A Lukan Prayer

October 17, 2006

I have always thought of the Rosary as a particularly Lukan prayer. So many of the mysteries are drawn from Saint Luke’s Gospel. It is...

18 October, Mass of Saint Luke the Evangelist

October 17, 2006

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON MR How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who publishes peace, who announces good, who preaches salvation (Is 52:7). COLLECT...

Buona festa, Don Luca!

October 17, 2006

Padre Luca Maria Zecchetti, O.Cist. celebrates his onomastico today. Don Luca, a native of Milano, is the prior of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He possesses...

Frumentum Christi Sum

October 17, 2006

Frumentum Christi sum, dentibus bestiarum molar, ut panis mundus inveniar. I actually sang part of my homily this morning. Yes, I did. I couldn’t help...

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.