Msgr Moroney's Blog: Rochester in the Snow

06 February 2015

Rochester in the Snow

Father O'Connor and I are visiting the Diocese of Rochester today. We started out by visiting the the Genesee Bakery owned by the Fiorito Family, where our own David Fiorito's skills in helping prepare the wonderful delicacies of Rochester's best bakery are dearly missed! Here I am in the family bakery with Mr. and Mrs. Fiorito! By the way, the turtle brownies are the best!

At lunchtime we visited with Father Paul Tomasso, Vocation Direction for Rochester. He was very excited to share the news that several new men will be joining us from Rochester next fall.

Finally, enjoying the kind hospitality of Bishop Matano, we were delighted to have dinner with him and with another old friend of Saint John's, Father Dan White. Bishop Matano is a member of our Board of Trustees and a great supporter of our beloved Saint John's Seminary.

A cold, snowy but all around delightful trip to Rochester.

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.