Fr. Simon Mary O F T H E C R O S S , M . C A R M . Maroney, STD, JCL
Fr. Simon Mary of the Cross, M. Carm., was born Nicholas Todd Maroney in Bennington, Vermont, on January 26, 1984, the oldest child of the late George and Maureen Maroney. After attending school with his two siblings in the small farming community of Cambridge, New York, he entered the Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, a public association of the Christian faithful in the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2004. By the grace of God, on the Solemnity of the Assumption, August 15, 2010, Fr. Simon Mary professed perpetual vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty and was subsequently ordained to the sacred priesthood by Bishop David Ricken on December 14, 2016, the Carmelite Feast of St. John of the Cross. He graduated summa cum laude with a ninety-credit MA in Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, in 2016, having had the great privilege to study with renowned Thomists Fr. Brian Mullady, OP, and Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson. Fr. Simon Mary’s academic pursuits continued in Marian Studies at the International Marian Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio, where he earned his Licentiate in Sacred Theology summa cum laude after successfully defending his thesis entitled “Seminary Life and Formation under Mary’s Mantle: An Exploration of Mary’s Presence and Mission in Initial Priestly Formation.” In April of 2021, Fr. Simon Mary successfully defended summa cum laude his doctoral thesis entitled "Mary, Summa Contemplatrix in Denis the Carthusian." Fr. Simon Mary also studied Canon Law at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, where he earned a Licentiate in Canon Law summa cum laude with a concentration in religious and clerical law in 2018, and he is presently completing a Doctorate in Canon Law with a forthcoming thesis project "The Spiritual Director in Orders of Monks: A Canonical Analysis." In 2023, Fr. Simon Mary began a two-year post-doc license in medieval studies at the celebrated Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, Ontario under the tutelage of Dr. Greti Dinkova-Bruun. In addition to his membership on the Pontifical Academy of Mary, Fr. Simon Mary presently serves his contemplative community at their cloistered monastery situated in the silence and solitude of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains.
Supervisors: Msgr. Frank Leo Jr., STD, Fr. Sébastien B. Abalodo, SM, STD, Deyanira Flores, STD , Chantal Labrèche, JCD, Maura Elizabeth Hearden Fehlner, PhD , Chad Glendinning, JCD, PhD, and Greti Dinkova-Bruun, PhD, LMS
Address: Carmelite Monastery
1079 Meeteetse Creek Rd.
Meeteetse, WY 82433
U.S.A.
Supervisors: Msgr. Frank Leo Jr., STD, Fr. Sébastien B. Abalodo, SM, STD, Deyanira Flores, STD , Chantal Labrèche, JCD, Maura Elizabeth Hearden Fehlner, PhD , Chad Glendinning, JCD, PhD, and Greti Dinkova-Bruun, PhD, LMS
Address: Carmelite Monastery
1079 Meeteetse Creek Rd.
Meeteetse, WY 82433
U.S.A.
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Thesis Chapters by Fr. Simon Mary O F T H E C R O S S , M . C A R M . Maroney, STD, JCL
Denis the Carthusian makes an original contribution to Marian studies by positing the exemplarity of Mary's prayer, in accord with Denis's notion of contemplation, suggesting that Mary enjoyed a singular perfection in Her intellectual knowledge of God before the Incarnation; was later instructed in mystical theology by Her Divine Son, the God-Man; and attained to the contemplative vision of God while still on earth as a foreshadowing of the beatific vision Mary now possesses in heaven.
This doctoral dissertation, written by a cloistered monk not unlike Denis the Carthusian, seeks to penetrate the silence and solitude of contemplative monastic life lived by one of Christianity's most prolific authors and popularly hailed "the last of the schoolmen" to explore the notion of Marian contemplation and the incomparability of Mary's prayer for twenty-first century imitation and pastoral application.
Mary’s presence and mission involve the Church and all of its members, resulting from the absolute Christian mystery of the Incarnation. As members of the Church through baptism and in formation for the ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ, Mary’s presence and mission intimately concern and can assist priestly formators, spiritual directors, and seminarians to realize the vision of priestly formation proffered in the Ratio Fundamentalis.
Denis the Carthusian makes an original contribution to Marian studies by positing the exemplarity of Mary's prayer, in accord with Denis's notion of contemplation, suggesting that Mary enjoyed a singular perfection in Her intellectual knowledge of God before the Incarnation; was later instructed in mystical theology by Her Divine Son, the God-Man; and attained to the contemplative vision of God while still on earth as a foreshadowing of the beatific vision Mary now possesses in heaven.
This doctoral dissertation, written by a cloistered monk not unlike Denis the Carthusian, seeks to penetrate the silence and solitude of contemplative monastic life lived by one of Christianity's most prolific authors and popularly hailed "the last of the schoolmen" to explore the notion of Marian contemplation and the incomparability of Mary's prayer for twenty-first century imitation and pastoral application.
Mary’s presence and mission involve the Church and all of its members, resulting from the absolute Christian mystery of the Incarnation. As members of the Church through baptism and in formation for the ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ, Mary’s presence and mission intimately concern and can assist priestly formators, spiritual directors, and seminarians to realize the vision of priestly formation proffered in the Ratio Fundamentalis.