Msgr Moroney's Blog: A New Statue for Presentation Campus

13 September 2013

A New Statue for Presentation Campus

I am delighted to report that as I type, the new Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Our Lady of the Presentation Lecture Hall and Library is being brought from the studios of Rohn Design in Pittsburgh for our ribbon-cutting on Monday evening.

This original statue was hand carved in wood by Edmund Rabunser, a master wood carver in Ortesei, Italy. The antique finishes, complete with layers of gold leaf, are the work of Renate Rohn.

The Blessed Virgin holds the Christ child as he opens his arms to embrace the world for whom he became flesh and for whose salvation he would offer the perfect sacrifice on the altar of the Cross.

The statue will have an honored place in the new Lecture Hall and Library.

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.