Msgr Moroney's Blog: Orientation winds down...

29 August 2017

Orientation winds down...

The new men gathered last night for a bonfire on a beautiful late summer's evening near the "Bocci courts." This afternoon everyone returns for the "Rector's Update" and a festive dinner. Tomorrow morning is the Opening Mass with Cardinal O'Malley and annual Pig Roast!

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.