Msgr Moroney's Blog: French Language Studies...

10 July 2014

French Language Studies...

We just heard from Boston seminarian John Guinan who is studying French in France this summer. He writes: "It has been wonderful to visit so many places where Catholicism has left its mark. Saturday I went to the church of St. Lazar in Autun, where the Church first introduced statues as a way of communicating the faith. Then, yesterday, I was in Avignon where I toured the Papal Palace. Incredible to see! I've attached a picture below.

Please pray for all our seminarians in parishes throughout New England, studying languages in Europe and South America, and even in Calcutta with the Sisters of Charity!

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.