Msgr Moroney's Blog: New England Seminarians

04 March 2015

New England Seminarians

Spring Break in Rome is drawing to a close with a delightful dinner last night with the New England Seminarians, joined by our own Father Jim Conn, SJ and Father David Gaffney (Providence) of the NAC faculty.

This week has been packed with meetings regarding Vox Clara and various seminary business and has also provided me with the opportunity to spend some time in the presence of some of Rome's great artistic treasures (which I will be sharing with my Liturgical Arts class at the Theological Institute). The beautiful weather has been such a contrast to the snows of New England, to which, nonetheless, I look forward to returning tomorrow. Thank God for a successful journey!

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.