Msgr Moroney's Blog: Congratulations to Father Madejski and Father Wilbur

24 June 2018

Congratulations to Father Madejski and Father Wilbur

Father David Madejski and Father Joshua Wilbur were ordained by Archbishop Leonard Blair in Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Hartford yesterday and celebrated their first Masses today at Holy Cross Church, New Britain and St. Thomas of Villanova in Goshen. Here are some photos from their First Masses.

Father Raymond Van De Moortell preached
at Father Wilbur's First Mass.

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.