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God wants pierced hearts
Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday addresses the heart. Ashes are sprinkled on our heads, but Lent is lived in the heart. God wants pierced hearts. God looks for the broken heart. “Even now,” says the Lord,...
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Of the Observance of Lent
CHAPTER XLIX. Of the Observance of Lent 31 Mar. 31 July. 30 Nov. Although the life of a monk ought at all times to have about it a Lenten character, yet since few have strength enough for this, we...
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Of the Observance of Lent (1)
CHAPTER XLIX. Of the Observance of Lent 31 Mar. 31 July. 30 Nov. Although the life of a monk ought at all times to have about it a Lenten character, yet since few have strength enough for this, we...
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The Crown of Thorns and Mental Illness
Union with the Passion of Christ The sacred liturgy provides man with the divinely inspired means to express his need in every situation, affliction, infirmity, and distress. If this is true at all...
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Lenten Lectio Divina
And in these days of Lent let each one receive a book from the library, and read it all through in order. These books are to be given out at the beginning of Lent. Above all, let one or two seniors be...
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Vidi Dominum facie ad faciem
The Stational Church It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its own. The Roman clergy and people were tired from the long night vigil that...
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Of Charity and Chastity
The Stational Church We return today to the stational church of Saint Laurence–without–the–Walls, wherein are buried the bodies of the two great deacon martyrs, Saint Stephen and Saint Laurence. This...
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Lest we betray Him with a kiss
The Call to Holiness My monastic vocation, as it has developed and matured over the years, is intimately bound up with the lives of my brother priests and with their desire for holiness. The Wednesday...
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An Oblate of Silverstream on Fatima and the Desert Fathers
Marco da Vinha and his wife, Isa, are Oblate novices of Silverstream Priory. Marco and Isa are the parents of Helena and Cristóvão. They make their home in the U.K., while remaining deeply rooted in...
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For the Sanctification of the Clergy
The Way of the Cross for Priests is available from Silverstream Priory’s own Cenacle Press. The beautifully designed 22-page booklet is suitable for the Stations of the Cross prayed privately or...
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Laetare: The Eucharistic Joy of the Church
Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be filled from the breasts of your consolation (Isaias 66:10–11)....
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Laetare, Jerusalem!
Like a Breath of Springtide “Be glad, Jerusalem! Hold an assembly, all you that love her: rejoice and be glad, you that were in sadness: that you may exult and be suckled plentifully with the breasts...
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Pope Saint Gregory the Great
Your Servants Through Jesus The feast of Saint Gregory the Great, falling in the midst of Lent on March 12th, brings joy to the whole Church and, in a special way, to the Benedictine Order. Like Saint...
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