Msgr Moroney's Blog: With Saint John in Rome and at home

08 October 2016

With Saint John in Rome and at home

Here's a great pic from last week's ordination in Rome. Deacon David Harris and I spent the morning visiting some of my favorite churches, finishing at the Papal Basilica of Saint John Lateran. David and I took this selfie at the Lateran in front of the eighteenth century statue of Sant John the Evangelist and Apostle by Camillo Rusconi. It is interesting to note that both our patron's statue outside the Saint John's Seminary (pictured below) and the painting in our Chapel were based on this work.

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.