Msgr Moroney's Blog: In Rome with the Chair of Saint Peter

26 February 2019

In Rome with the Chair of Saint Peter

Monsignor Johnson is thriving on sabbatical, and on the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter celebrated Mass at Saint Peter's Basilica with the Worcester seminarians.

Peter said to Jesus:

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus replied:

You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.

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.