Msgr Moroney's Blog: Reflections on the Ordination of Deacons

28 October 2021

Reflections on the Ordination of Deacons

Last night I was privileged to gather with those discerning a vocation to the Diaconate and review the rite of Ordination of Deacons. I hope you will enjoy the presentation (you can follow along with the attached copy of the Rite of Ordinations of Deacons).

Rite of Ordination of Deacons (text)

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.