Msgr Moroney's Blog: The end of the semester

21 December 2017

The end of the semester

Phil Scheer and Valentine Nworah share a laugh as the semester draws to a close. The last of the Final Exams were this morning and professors are all grading papers. Cars were departing for Rochester and all points west, north and south all morning long. Tomorrow Alex Boucher receives candidacy from Bishop Deeley in Portland. Stay tuned for pictures, despite the predicted ice and snow!

And pray for all our seminarians, that they might have a joy-filled and safe Christmas Season, until returning for retreat in Kennebunkport on the weekend of January 7th. Their Rector will be helping out with the Christmas Masses in Queensbury and Lake George, New York. But more on that in future postings.

Come quickly, we pray, Lord Jesus,
and do not delay,
that those who trust in your compassion

may find solace and relief in your coming.
Who live and reign with God the Father
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

Roman Missal
Collect for the Morning Mass of December 24th

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.