Msgr Moroney's Blog: Cold....just plain cold...

06 January 2018

Cold....just plain cold...

Father O'Connor and I have arrived in Kennebunkport in anticipation of the opening of the retreat here tomorrow afternoon. The town is very quiet, but it is very very cold. Forecast calls for an actual (not wind chill) temperature of 9 below this evening. I don't think I have ever experienced an actual temperature of 9 below before!

Cold, Cold, Cold....

Wisps of cold wrap around me, strangling the warmth
Grasping hold of my feet, and is a strange sort
Of coldness this is, it’s abnormal
It is full of need and listlessness, definitely not normal.

Anonymous, 2015

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.