Msgr Moroney's Blog: Tabernacle is Ready to Ship

20 October 2013

Tabernacle is Ready to Ship

The new Tabernacle for the Chapel of Saint John's is ready to ship from Carrara, Italy and should be in place in time for Christmas. Here are some of the last pictures....It takes about 4 weeks to get here and just under a week to install.

These are the steps leading up to the tabernacle, made of the same marble as our sanctuary floor.

The tabernacle itself is mounted on a platform with four columns. Still awaiting its gold leafed door, this replica of the Tempietto is now complete with rails, niches and other architectural elements.

Here's the mosaic trim for the lower portion of the tabernacle shelf. It is a reproduction of a Cosmatesque mosaic pattern found in Saint John Lateran in Rome.

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.