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March 13, 2024

Catch Fr. Daniel Brandenburg, LC, on EWTN This Week

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Fr. Daniel Brandenburg, LC, will join EWTN hosts Jim and Joy Pinto on their show At Home With Jim & Joy for a two-part series on the example of St. Joseph in living a life of faith and fortitude.  Part one and two will premier on EWTN on Wednesday March 20th and Thursday March 21st at 1:30pm EST respectively. The shows can also be viewed on the EWTN OnDemand platform following the premier airtimes, as well as on YouTube.

 

Fr. Daniel is the author of the book, Lessons from the Workshop of St. Joseph, which reflects on how the saint experienced and lived the fullness of joy with Jesus and Mary. The book is written in 14 episodes drawn from Scripture in a manner that parallels the traditional devotion of the Stations of the Cross. 

 

Get a short sample of Fr. Daniel’s thoughts on St. Joseph in the video below, then tune in to EWTN for the full discussion.

 

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Road to the 2024 Regnum Christi General Convention Meet the Delegates: Donna Garrett

Road to the 2024 Regnum Christi General Convention, Meet the Delegates: Donna Garrett

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Donna Garrett has been a member of Regnum Christi for 25 years, and in that time, she has served as a full-time apostle in an enormous variety of roles, including team leader, section director, local coordinator, and local director. She has also been involved with ECYD and Challenge, has led Mission Youth missions, and has served on both the governance board of RC in North America and the board of RC Education. Donna considers Regnum Christi to be a tremendous gift to herself, her marriage, and her family, providing a multitude of experiences to serve the Church, and witness the life-changing impact the Regnum Christi charism can have, in her own diocese and around the world.

 

Besides being a local RC team leader and spiritual director in the Heartland locality, Donna is currently as the Director of the RC Life Department for the Territory of North America, helping to develop resources to enable and encourage RC members and leaders to fully live their Regnum Christi identity. She also sits on the board for Catholic Worldview Fellowship, and, along with her husband, facilitates leadership training for the seminarians studying humanities at Cheshire. Donna will now be joining four other elected lay delegates – Andrew Rawicki, Cathie Zentner, Horacio Gomez, and Tony Frese – and Kerrie Rivard, a lay delegate who was elected to the RC General Plenary Council at the last General Convention and will participate in this Convention ex-officio in that role. 

 

The preparation for the General Convention has been carried out in three phases that shift the emphasis from the local to the territorial and, finally, to the general level. The territorial phase, which served as a meeting between localities and a forum to address issues common to all of them, took place in the second half of 2023 and concluded with the celebration of the Territorial Conventions. Donna, who has been deeply involved in the Regnum Christi renewal process from the beginning, is eager to see how in this final phase, culminating with the General Convention in April, God will be leading Regnum Christi forward in mission.

“The desire on my heart is to see how the work of the first convention, which focused more on structures and canonical realities, has cultivated the ground and nurtured the seeds of the charism to bear fruit for the Church in every territory, and to see more clearly where the Holy Spirit is calling Regnum Christi to respond to collaborate in her mission.”

 

Donna holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and several certificates in catechesis and spiritual studies, including the Spiritual Direction Certificate from Divine Mercy University. Donna and her husband, Jeff, to whom she has been married for nearly 35 years, live in Omaha, Nebraska, and have four young adult children scattered across the United States, as well as five grandchildren. Donna oversees the RC Life department and the RCSpirituality Center for the Territory of North America. It is with gratitude and love that she places her time, talent, and treasure at the service of her spiritual family, Regnum Christi.

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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March 13, 2024 – Greater Deeds Still

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Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

 

 

John 5:17-30

 

Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God. Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will do also. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself. And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation. I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”

 

Introductory Prayer: Christ, I certainly believe in you, because in baptism you gave me the gift of faith. I believe for all those who do not believe in you. See my effort, Lord. I trust in your divine plan, and I hope in your saving grace.

 

Petition: Lord, grant me the gift of piety.

 

  1. Like Father, Like Son: “I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will do also. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself does.” The relationship between Christ and his Father was one of total respect and love. It wasn’t marred by the breakdown so frequently and tragically experienced in our modern family. The intensity of filial love that Jesus lived toward his Father was so powerful that it provides a path for all of us to follow. One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of piety. Piety lavishes the soul with the capacity for considering God as our Father and all people as our brothers and sisters. A forgiving heart, which prevails over any rancor for injuries received, is one of the fruits of this gift.

 

  1. The Requirements of Piety: Jesus said, “Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.” There is no need to squander time in hatred for our brothers and sisters. Only God can judge their hearts. Our duty is to treat everyone with respect and love; this is the best way we have to foster the gift of piety.

 

  1. Humility Is the Key: Jesus said, “I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me” (Jn 5:30). Believe it or not, the humble are the only ones who can lead a peaceful coexistence with all and, at the same time, stalwartly uphold truths and principles. Who can imagine a sunny day without the sun? Who can imagine the gift of piety without the practice of humility? I should examine those times when I blame everyone else for my impatience. Are they not a result of the difficulty I experience in shouldering someone else’s plans over my own or in accepting God’s will at the expense of my preferences?

 

Conversation with Christ: Lord, so many times have I come to you on my knees. I come now, confident that you will pour into my heart an abundance of the gift of piety through the infinite merits you won for me on the cross. Help me, Lord, to see you in everyone I meet.

 

Resolution: I will be a pious friend and a forgiving neighbor. I will humbly offer my services to the neighbor who interests me the least.

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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!