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Prayer, reparation, and praising God are the focus of a new Benedictine priory in Ireland, which focuses especially on reparation for the sins of priests.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was never our predetermined plan to come to Ireland,\u201d Silverstream Priory\u2019s Father Benedict Anderson, O.S.B., told Catholic News Agency<\/em>. \u201cBut we believe that, through circumstances that we could never have foreseen, Divine Providence placed us here to play some sort of role, however modest, in the life of the Irish Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silverstream Priory is the home of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.<\/p>\n
The priory is a former residence of the Visitation Sisters in Stamullen, a village about 22 miles north of Dublin. It is believed to be the first monastery established in Ireland\u2019s County Meath since King Henry VIII suppressed them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a> (The stories of how these Americans etc ended up as monks in Ireland are fascinating. And this is v. resonant with the book<\/a> I\u2019m editing, which should go off to the publishers this week\u2026)
\nETA: Title changed (as the title of the Crux piece was changed) after strong protest by the monks themselves, who found it injurious to Irish priests. I don\u2019t think I agree with that but a) it\u2019s not as if I know the cultural context well & really what do I know? and b) I don\u2019t generally try to make monks\u2019 lives harder.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"feature: Prayer, reparation, and praising God are the focus of a new Benedictine priory in Ireland, which focuses especially on reparation for the sins of priests. \u201cIt was never our predetermined plan to come to Ireland,\u201d Silverstream Priory\u2019s Father Benedict Anderson, O.S.B., told Catholic News Agency. \u201cBut we believe that, through circumstances that we could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[263,30,443,41,519],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-brass-monkery-that-funky-monkery","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-put-not-your-trust-in-princes-of-the-church","tag-reading-and-repentance","tag-youll-never-beat-the-irish"],"yoast_head":"\n
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