Msgr Moroney's Blog: A New Priest for Hartford

20 May 2017

A New Priest for Hartford

Our own Father Glen Jerzy Dmytryszyn was ordained by Archbishop Blair for service to the Archdiocese of Hartford this morning. Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. and Father Joseph Briody represented the prayers of the entire Saint John's Seminary community.

Father Dmytryszyn's First Mass

SJS seminarians Robert Little, Eric Silva and Michael Niemazyck with Father Dmytryszyn.

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.