Msgr Moroney's Blog: Springfield Alumni Association Meets!

14 July 2015

Springfield Alumni Association Meets!

Last night I was honored to attend a dinner of the Springfield Chapter of Saint John's Seminary Alumni Association at the Cedar's in Springfield, Massachusetts. I am deeply grateful to Father Gary Daily for arranging the event and to Father Ryan Rooney, chairman of the Springfield Chapter of our Alumni Association.

Bishop Rozanski was so kind to be with us for the entire event, along with Monsignors Chris Connelly and John Bonzagni and Fathers Matthew Alcombright, Michael Bernier, Wayne Biernat. Lionel Bonneville, Robert Coonan, David Darcy, Vernon Decoteau, Henry Dorsch, Christopher Fedoryshyn, Matthew Guidi, James Longe, Chris Peschel, Yerick Mendes, Robert Miskell, William Murphy, Johan Salatino, Michael Wood, and seminarians Sinh Trinh, Matt Barone, Michael Ciolek, and Barrent Pease.

How wonderful to be with these great priests, each a loyal son of Saint John's Seminary!

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.