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Holy Week and Easter Schedule at Silverstream Priory
Given our small number and very limited vocal resources, our Holy Week and Paschal celebrations will be as simple as possible. We trust that God will be glorified in our poverty and that our human...
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Ipse est ianua, ipse est via
This morning, Saint Ambrose at Matins: Ipse est per quem ascendimus, et ad quem ascendimus. Ipse est janua, ipse est via, qui aperitur, et qui aperit: qui pulsatur ab ingredientibus, et ab emeritis...
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Into the Harbour of the Sacred Passion
Into the Silence Listening to the Passion plunges us into silence. The Word has been silenced. Only a fool would dare to speak. Perhaps there should be no homily today. Anything less than a word out...
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Grant Us Breathing Space
Monday of Holy Week Today’s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the original Latin, and in two different English translations: Da,...
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I will go before you
There You Shall See Me The bright eighth mode intervals of last evening’s Magnificat Antiphon still echo in our hearts: “It is therefore written: I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock...
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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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I know whom I have chosen
Maundy Thursday Thursdays are special at Silverstream Priory, first of all because every Thursday recalls Maundy Thursday, the feast of the Natalis Calicis, the birthday of the Eucharistic Chalice and...
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