Msgr Moroney's Blog: Vocations Meetings in Chicago

19 August 2013

Vocations Meetings in Chicago

I'm in Chicago for a few days thanks to the generosity of the J.S. Paluch Company. Each year for the past twenty-six years, J.S. Paluch has sponsored a national seminary for some 70 leaders in priestly and religious formation, providing a forum for continued collaboration between the National Conference of Diocesan Vocations Directors (NCDVD) and the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC). You can see some of the participants at the dinner this evening in the picture below.

The day began with a meeting of the Executive Committee of the NCEA Seminary Division to which I was recently elected. All kinds of wonderful ideas in Chicago these days on vocations and seminary formation!

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.