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March 20, 2024

Horacio Gomez

Road to the 2024 Regnum Christi General Convention, Meet the Delegates: Horacio Gomez

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Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Horacio Gomez has been a member of Regnum Christi for 28 years. As a young boy, he attended Cumbres Guadalajara, and through this Regnum Christi school, was introduced to and joined ECYD. After becoming a member of Regnum Christi in 1996, Horacio gave one year of service as a coworker (now RC Mission Corps) in Madrid, Spain. He went on to cofound the first ECYD clubs (Club Forja and Club Sherpa) in Guadaljara, and has served as a team leader, section director, and RC director in his current locality of Dallas, Texas. Horacio is 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.

 

In 2003, Horacio moved to San Diego, California, where he obtained his master’s degree, and in 2007, he settled in Dallas, working for Flextronics (now Flex, a global manufacturing company) and eventually Amazon, where he worked as the Head of Global Supply Chain for the drone delivery program. During his work assignments, Horacio had the opportunity to live for periods of over six months in places like Hungary, China, Malaysia, and Brazil, and experience the Regnum Christi charism across of a variety of different cultures.

 

Horacio is currently one of two appointed lay Regnum Christi members serving on the North American Plenary Council, which assists the Territorial Directive College. In this role, he works to support different initiatives at the territory level, like the Locality Evangelization Guidelines, as well as supporting localities in the discernment and implementation of their evangelization plans. Horacio has spent the last 10 years overseeing several different apostolates through the Marian Center of Dallas, like the Marian Minute which provides an online space to spend a minute in prayer with Mary, and leading and organizing pilgrimages to Marian shrines around the world.

 

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, culminating in the upcoming General Convention. Horacio is looking forward to witnessing how the Holy Spirit will be guiding the discernment within Regnum Christi at the international level over these days in Rome.

 

“I can’t wait to see how the Holy Spirit ignites all the hearts of the delegates to take RC where God wants, and to see what he is expecting from us in the mission of evangelization!”

 

Horacio and his wife, Luisa, live in Dallas, Texas, and have four children: Horacio, Pablo, Maria Jose, and baby Nicolas. Horacio (age 6) attends The Highlands School, a Regnum Christi school in Irving, and Pablo (age 4) and Maria Jose (age 3) attend a Montessori school part time. They love hiking and spending time together as a family.

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 20, 2024 – The Truth Will Set You Free

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Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

 

 

John 8:31-42

 

Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. A slave does not remain in a household forever, but a son always remains. So if the Son frees you, then you will truly be free. I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you. I tell you what I have seen in the Father’s presence; then do what you have heard from the Father.” They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works of Abraham. But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this. You are doing the works of your father!” So they said to him, “We were not born of fornication. We have one Father, God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.”

 

Introductory Prayer: Lord, you are life and truth and goodness. You are also peace and mercy. How grateful I am to have this moment to turn to you. Without you I can do nothing good. In fact, when I do good, it is you working through me, despite my failings. Thank you, Lord. Here I am, ready to love you more.

 

Petition: Grant me the grace, Lord, to remain in your word and to be set free by your truth.

 

  1. A Vibrant Faith: Faith isn’t real until it touches our attitudes and, above all, our concrete choices. To “remain” in the word of Christ means to conform our lives with his life and his virtues, especially the virtue of charity, which is the very essence of Christian doctrine and morality. To “remain” in his word is, as some would say, “to walk the walk.” In another passage we are told that it is not those who say “Lord, Lord…” who will enter the Kingdom, but only those who actually do the Father’s will in their lives. Remaining in his word is the stuff of sanctity—it’s also the stuff of daily perseverance and of knowing how to get up, dust ourselves off, and begin again each time we falter or fall along the way. How well do I “remain” in Christ’s word? Could an impartial observer see from my attitudes and actions that I follow Christ?

 

  1. A True Disciple Lives the Truth: Christ seems to imply that there are true and false disciples. There is only one way to tell the difference between the two: whether one actually embraces his word not only as an ideal, but also as a rule of life. Today a plethora of voices, even within the Christian community, would have us follow a purely “therapeutic” Christianity—a form of Christianity in which we can supposedly believe in Christ while adopting behaviors or attitudes which are totally opposed to his “way” of discipleship as taught authoritatively by the Church. The temptation to separate faith and practice is never far from us. How much have these false voices impacted my own understanding of what it means to follow Christ as a member of his body, the Church?

 

  1. Authentic Freedom: The freedom promised by Christ to those who remain in his word is much deeper than the freedom offered by the world. Christ’s freedom is not simply a political freedom. Neither is it the ability to choose whatever I want, when I want, and how I want. The freedom of Christ’s disciple is spiritual, moral, and interior; it is the freedom for which every person longs in the depths of his heart. And only Christ gives this kind of freedom.

 

Conversation with Christ: Thank you, Lord, for the freedom you have given me! With it I could seek happiness in broken vessels of clay, forgetting you, the fountain of living waters. You could have made me not free… But thus you have created me, and I want to be free. I want to know how to be free. I want to demonstrate that I am free, with the most sovereign act of my freedom: Lord, since I am free, I give my freedom, my will, to you, so that your will may be done.

 

Resolution: I will exercise my freedom responsibly, as Christ would have me do.

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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!