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February 29, 2024

Meet the Delegates- Cathie Zetner

Road to the 2024 Regnum Christi General Convention, Meet the Delegates: Cathie Zentner

/ 2024 General Convention, Calgary, Regnum Christi News, Whole Territory

Cathie Zentner has been a member of Regnum Christi for 27 years, and in that time, she has devoted her life and her career to serving and supporting the RC mission.

 

After her conversion to the Catholic faith in 1992, Cathie was introduced to Regnum Christi through the local RC school, Clear Water Academy, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She became a member of Regnum Christi in 1996, and, having worked as a management consultant with Deloitte & Touche, Cathie immediately felt a strong call to use her management and administrative expertise to serve the mission, and began working in the territorial offices of Regnum Christi in 1998. She is now one of the five elected lay delegates for the upcoming Regnum Christi General Convention to be held in Rome at the end of April this year.

 

Over the past 27 years, Cathie has held a variety of roles within Regnum Christi. Locally, Cathie has served within the RC Calgary women’s section, on the locality committee, and within Clear Water Academy, and she currently serves on the locality’s administrative team. At the territorial level, Cathie served in National Consultants for Education (now RC Education) for eight years; was the director of Colegio Himalaya, a Regnum Christi school in Monterrey, Mexico for four years; assistant to the territorial administrator for four years, and assistant to the territorial secretary for five years. She is currently supporting the territory’s governing body as Territorial Directive College Delegate, a role she will be retiring from this June. In this capacity, she has had the opportunity to work with localities and the Mission Support Team to implement the territory’s approved strategic plan aimed at building and sustaining localities as vibrant communities of apostles. Over these years, Cathie and her family have lived in Washington, DC, and Monterrey, Mexico, as well as their home in Canada, having the privilege of witnessing the charism of Regnum Christi lived out in three different countries. She is incredibly grateful for this opportunity, and that God has allowed her to play such an integral part in the RC mission.

 

Cathie is looking forward to gathering as an international family at the upcoming General Convention, and experiencing the gift of the charism that flows when the four RC vocations – Legionary priests, Consecrated Women, Lay Consecrated Men, and lay Regnum Christi members – come together to serve the mission. “I am eager to learn how RC is being lived out in the different territories around the world, addressing the new and challenging reality of today, and discerning together how God may be calling Regnum Christi to respond.” She feels particularly blessed to be able to attend the Legionary ordinations that precede the General Convention and, of course, to be enjoying good Italian food with friends from around the world.

 

Cathie and her husband, Clark, live in Canmore, Alberta, and have two adult daughters: Lindsay, who is married and living in San Francisco, and Laura, who lives in Canmore.

 

 

The members of Regnum Christi, represented at the General Convention by elected delegates including Legionaries of Christ, Consecrated Women of Regnum Christ, and lay Regnum Christi members, are impelled by the personal experience of Christ’s love, feel the inner urgency to make his Kingdom present, give witness to what they have lived and experienced, and thus seek to respond to the needs of the world and of the Church.

 

The Regnum Christi General Convention, as an event of the Spirit, involves three actions: illumination, discernment and action. As an event of the Spirit, synodal, Eucharistic, and prayerful, the convention should illuminate Christian apostolic life, as well as conclude with concrete decisions on the life and mission of Regnum Christi.; it is about letting the Spirit blow on our embers and fan the fire of love, light and joy of the Gospel in us.

 

The General Convention is a strong moment in the life of the Kingdom – a Eucharistic, communitarian event, of union of each and everyone in the Body of Christ. It is about praying together, united in one faith and one mission, and receiving a Word from God about the needs of the Church and the world, with the intention of doing the will of the Father at this moment in history and from the Regnum Christi charism. The General Convention, whose theme is Discerning & Living the Mission Together, will begin on April 29, 2024, and is expected to last six days. To find out more, visit rcgeneralconvention.org.

 

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February 29, 2024 – Too Late for Change?

/ Daily Meditations

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

 

Luke 16:19-31

 

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’ Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.’ He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.’ But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’”

 

Introductory Prayer: Lord, although I cannot see you with my eyes, I believe you are present to me now, in my innermost being, and that you know me far better than I know myself. I also know that you love me much more than I love my own self. Thank you for loving and watching over me, though I don’t deserve your love. In return, I offer you my sorrow for my sins and my hopes to love you more each day.

 

Petition: Lord, help me to be generous and serve the needs of my neighbor.

 

  1. Self-Centeredness Is Useless and Sinful: The rich man lived in isolated luxury, absorbed with the latest in fashion and the finest in dining. He did not hurt anyone: He didn’t run Lazarus off his property. He didn’t mind Lazarus hanging around his table for the leftovers. He didn’t criticize him for not getting a job to earn a living. Then what was the rich man’s sin? He didn’t treat Lazarus as a person. To the rich man, Lazarus was simply a part of the landscape. How many people do I come in contact with, perhaps repeatedly, who are nothing more to me than part of the landscape?

 

  1. Suffering Helps Us Grow: Our words “compassion” and “sympathy” come from Latin and Greek roots that mean “to suffer with.” Our personal suffering makes us more humane and opens us up to the plight of others. Our vision becomes more perceptive of other’s hardships, and our hearts become quicker to respond compassionately. Yet suffering can be a double-edged sword. It can also push us into envy, hatred, bitterness, and isolation if we are proud, or if we forget that God permits trials to purify our love. How have I responded to suffering in my life? Has it made me more compassionate or more bitter and self-centered?

 

  1. There Is More to Life Than Riches: Suffering also makes us more zealous for souls, more apostolic. Unfortunately for his brothers, the rich man’s zeal was a “zeal come lately.” Because he spent all his energy and fortune in avoiding suffering, he was totally absorbed in self. The meaning of his life was completely temporal, and in the end, he had nothing to show for it. One of our greatest sufferings in purgatory will be the realization that we could have done so much more for the salvation of souls.

 

Conversation with Christ: Lord, I have had a chance to look more seriously at myself in this meditation and to examine if my heart is set on you, if you are my treasure. Perhaps in some areas I still cling to the treasures of this world. But now I want to get rid of them completely. I know that my heart can be set on only one thing and that it will radiate with whatever fills it. Fill me with yourself, so that I may radiate you. Anything that is not you cripples my efforts to give you to others. Rid me of my selfishness. Make me your apostle.

 

Resolution: I will pray for someone who is difficult for me to love, and I will be kind to a stranger.

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Alex Kucera

Atlanta

Alex Kucera has lived in Atlanta, GA, for the last 46 years. He is one of 9 children, married to his wife Karmen, and has 3 girls, one grandson, and a granddaughter on the way. Alex joined Regnum Christi in 2007. Out of the gate, he joined the Helping Hands Medical Missions apostolate and is still participating today with the Ghana Friendship Mission.

In 2009, Alex was asked to be the Atlanta RC Renewal Coordinator for the Atlanta Locality to help the RC members with the RC renewal process. Alex became a Group Leader in 2012 for four of the Atlanta Men’s Section Teams and continues today. Running in parallel, in 2013, Alex became a Team Leader and shepherded a large team of good men.

Alex was honored to be the Atlanta Mission Coordinator between 2010 to 2022 (12 years), coordinating 5-8 Holy Week Mission teams across Georgia. He also created and coordinated missions at a parish in Athens, GA, for 9 years. Alex continues to coordinate Holy Week Missions, Advent Missions, and Monthly missions at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Cumming, GA.

From 2016 to 2022, Alex also served as the Men’s Section Assistant in Atlanta. He loved working with the Men’s Section Director, the Legionaries, Consecrated, and Women’s Section leadership teams.

Alex is exceptionally grateful to the Legionaries, Consecrated, and many RC members who he’s journeyed shoulder to shoulder, growing his relationship with Christ and others along the way. He knows that there is only one way, that’s Christ’s Way, with others!