Msgr Moroney's Blog: Seminarians in Tornado Relief

21 June 2014

Seminarians in Tornado Relief

While most of our seminarians are in parishes this summer, a number are also attending the Institute for Priestly Formation in Omaha, Nebraska.

Following the recent tornados in northern Nebraska, our own Eric Silva and Will Sexton joined Victor Andreozzi (Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary) in assisting with the cleanup from these terrible storms. These three seminarians are shown here working on a three hundred acre corn and soybean farm in Wakefield, Nebraska where they walked the fields clearing debris. Thankfully the farmer's family was unharmed and their house only had minor damage, although they lost close to a million dollars in equipment and several barns.

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.