Msgr Moroney's Blog: Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Installation

07 November 2015

Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Installation

This is the weekend for installation of new members of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, including our own Dr. Aldona Lingertat, Director of the Master in Arts and Ministry program at our Theological Institute. Last night Bishop Deeley blessed the insignia of new members of the new Knights and Ladies and tomorrow Cardinal O'Malley will admit them into this ancient charitable order, the single most important source of funding for schools in the Holy Land today. Pictured with me at last night's dinner are Alex Boucher, John Jackson and Father Jason Jalbert, Vocations Director for the Diocese of Manchester and a member of our Board of Trustees.

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.