Msgr Moroney's Blog: Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols

06 December 2015

Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols

With two great celebrations of our Festival Lessons and Carols we have opened the Advent Season in a wonderful way, by meditating on the reality of the incarnation of Christ. I am deeply indebted to Dr. Janet Hunt, our Schola and visiting musicians. As the choir sang in the Introit to our prayer: "Wake, awake, for night is flying," the watchman on the heights is crying; "Awake, Jerusalem arise!"

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.