Msgr Moroney's Blog: Please Pray for Tom Galvin

19 December 2016

Please Pray for Tom Galvin

I just received word that Thomas F. Galvin, beloved father of Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin has died. Please pray for Thomas, that our merciful Lord will send an angel to lead him him swiftly home to heaven in this season of joyful hope, and say a prayer for Bill and Eileen Galvin and the whole Galvin Family, as well.

As you know, Secretary Galvin is one of Saint John Seminary’s dearest friends. If you are able to attend the wake, it is at Eaton and Mackay Funeral Home, 465 Centre Street in Newton Corner on Wednesday from 4-8pm. The Funeral Mass is at Mission Church, 1545 Tremont Street, Boston on Thursday morning at 10:30am.

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.