Msgr Moroney's Blog: Finalmente!

13 February 2014

Finalmente!

The tabernacle, marble steps and presbyterium (all 9500 pounds of them) have finally arrived at a snowy Saint John's Seminary! Workmen estimate seven to ten days for installation. Here Costel Cristina, the foreman for the marble installation crew stands on the truck about to unload the crates. Also on hand is Rolf Rohn, the designer of our new Tempietto. Stay tuned as we build a worthy house for the the true bread come down from heaven!

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.