Msgr Moroney's Blog: Vox Clara in Rome...

27 October 2013

Vox Clara in Rome...

I'm in Rome for about a week for a meeting of the Vox Clara Committee. I was delighted to have lunch on this first day with Mike Zimmerman, Kevin Leaver, Kevin Staley-Joyce and Donato Infante. We've planned a Boston dinner as well as a dinner with the seminarians of Massachusetts for later in the week. The scene to the left is from my window at North American College. Please keep the work of the Vox Clara Committee in your prayers as we work through the ICEL Green books for the rites of Dedication of a Church and Altar, Exorcism, and supplemental texts from the Liturgy of the Hours.

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.