Msgr Moroney's Blog: Three New Deacons for Fall River

28 May 2017

Three New Deacons for Fall River

Three of Saint John's own seminarians were ordained to the diaconate yesterday by Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in Fall River. Congratulations to Deacons Matt Gill, Huan Muñoz and Dan Nunes!

Deacon Nunes, Bishop da Cunha, Deacon Gill and Deacon Muñoz

"Do you resolve to discharge the office of Deacon with humble charity in order to assist the priestly Order and to benefit the Christian people?"

"Send forth upon them, Lord, we pray, the Holy Spirit,
that they may be strengthened
by the gift of your sevenfold grace for the faithful carrying out
of the work of the ministry."

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.