Msgr Moroney's Blog: Saint Patricks Day Celebration

18 March 2014

Saint Patricks Day Celebration

Last night was our Saint Patrick's Day celebration at Saint John's Seminary. There were limericks galore, great food and great fellowship. While there are more pictures to come, this was my favorite!

While we will also post more limericks, here is a particularly witty one concerning the tabernacle that too so long to arrive from across the seas!

It took forever to arrive by sea
Even longer than Father Briody
But friends, don't distress
Come now to SJS
The Taj Mahal behind the altar you'll see!

He does have a point!

Monsignor James P. Moroney, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester for forty four years, is Pastor of Saint Cecilia Parish in Leominster. He served for many years as Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Divine Worship in Washington D.C., as Rector of Saint John's Seminary in Boston, and as Pastor of Mary Queen of the Rosary Parish in Spencer and as Rector of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Worcester. Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict both appointed him as a Consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome and as Executive Director of the Vox Clara Committee. He is author of THE MASS EXPLAINED (Catholic Book Publishing) which is being published in its third edition this Spring.