Msgr Moroney's Blog: The Smile of God...

12 September 2014

The Smile of God...

Sandy Barry, our Director of Annual Giving, has been out on leave as she and her husband Craig have been welcoming their newborn son. Dillon Barry was the center of everyone's attention as Sandy brought the newest member of the Saint John's community for lunch during this past week. His presence reminded me of Pope Benedict XVI's homily at a Baptism he celebrated in 2008: "Each child born," said the Holy Father, "brings to us the smile of God and invites us to recognize that life is His gift, a gift that must be accepted with love and protected with care, always and at all times." (Pope Benedict XVI, January 8, 2008)

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.