An Irish Oasis of Adoration

While this movement has been gaining interest and momentum in the United States, a small group of traditional Benedictine monks in Ireland have been nurturing a Eucharistic Revival across the Atlantic and have been doing so since their founding in 2012. This summer, with some close friends, I visited these monks at Silverstream Priory. The monks of Silverstream Priory are traditional Benedictines who have a special charism of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The monks pray and work in an old Irish manor, which was converted into the priory. Nestled quietly in the Irish countryside, they have their own chickens, pigs, vegetable garden, apple orchard, and berry patch. And, of course, a silver stream quietly runs in front of the priory.