Msgr Moroney's Blog: Dunk the Seminarian!

14 June 2015

Dunk the Seminarian!

Reports are beginning to come in about our seminarians' adventures. Matthew Conley spent a week in Youngstown, Ohio visiting his friend Cary Dabney and Cary's wife and four boys Austin, Aiden, Alec, and Aaron. Cary studies at Harvard Divinity School during the academic year and takes classes at St. John's Seminary. Matthew stayed at the rectory of Cary's home parish St. Christine's and was warmly welcomed by Fr. John Keehner pastor, and by Fr. John Ettinger, parochial vicar.

St. Christine's was celebrating their annual parish festival and Matt bravely volunteered to be the victim for the popular dunk tank...many came to "dunk the Bostonian".

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.