Msgr Moroney's Blog: Studying Cures at Lourdes

25 February 2019

Studying Cures at Lourdes

Last night I joined the Order of Malta at Saint Paul's in Cambridge for a wonderful presentation by Alessandro de Franciscis, Director of the Lourdes Medical Bureau. A previous talk which Fra Alessandro gave at Harvard Divinity School is available on Youtube. Here is the prayer I offered at the end of the evening.

Heavenly Father, source if all healing and life, we give you thanks for good doctors: For Dr. Jackson, whose witness to life will ever live in our hearts; and for Fra Dr. de Francisis, witness of the signs which lead us to the Mother of your Son. Bless their work as you bless all who approach the Grotto of the Apparition with healing of body and soul. Heal us of our selfishness and sin and make us disciples of the life and healing which we receive at the hands of Jesus your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

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.