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February 12, 2026

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The Second General Assembly of the Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi Comes to an End

/ Lay Consecrated Men, Regnum Christi News

With deep gratitude to God, to the Church and to the entire Regnum Christi family, the Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi announce the conclusion of our Ordinary General Assembly, held in Rome. The Assembly was an intense time of prayer, discernment, fraternal dialogue, and ecclesial communion, in which we have sought, together, to listen to what the Holy Spirit asks of our vocation and our mission in the Church and in the world today.

From its beginning, the Assembly was lived in a profoundly spiritual atmosphere, marked by the celebration of the Eucharist, Adoration, and the sincere desire to listen to the Holy Spirit and to respond to the Lord’s grace. Throughout our work, the different dimensions of our life as a Society of Apostolic Life were reviewed with realism and hope: elements of our history, fraternal life, spiritual life, formation, the exercise of authority, consecrated lay poverty, apostolic projection, vocational work, and attention to safe environments, in addition to making some adjustments to our proper law.

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A particularly significant moment was the audience with the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, who received the members of the Regnum Christi assemblies and addressed us a close and profound message. In his words to us, he invited us to guard the charism received, to live a government at the service of the mission, and to grow in an ever deeper communion within the spiritual family of Regnum Christi, reminding us that “the Lord makes no noise, but his Kingdom springs up and grows in every corner of the world”. This meeting was a true gift that illuminated all our discernment and renewed our hope.

The Assembly was also enriched by the contributions of various members of the Church and Regnum Christi, as well as by the voices of lay members, Consecrated Women, and Legionaries, who helped us to maintain a broad, ecclesial, and non-self-referential view, strengthening the sense of apostolic body and shared mission.

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Within the framework of the Assembly, the election of the new general government of the Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi took place, called to serve and animate life and mission in the coming years. This process was carried out in an atmosphere of prayer, docility to the Holy Spirit, and deep communion, trusting that the Lord continues to guide our vocation on the path of renewal and creative fidelity. We sincerely thank the outgoing government for its generous self-giving and we ask the entire Regnum Christi family to accompany the new government with their prayers in this mission of service.

We conclude this Assembly with hearts full of gratitude: to God, for his fidelity; to the Holy Father, for his closeness; and to all the members of Regnum Christi, for their prayers, their support, and their communion. We renew our desire to continue to walk together, as a spiritual family and apostolic body, at the service of the Church and society, making the Kingdom of Christ present in temporal realities with a lay consecration fully inserted in the world.

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As a sign of this journey, at the end of this note we share in its entirety the Message of the General Assembly to all the members of Regnum Christi, which includes in greater detail the reflections, orientations, and hopes that have emerged from these days of shared discernment.

May the Virgin Mary accompany us and teach us to live the vocation we have received with gratitude, to walk in communion, and to continually renew our dedication so that the Kingdom of Christ may continue to grow, silently, in the midst of the world.

II Asamblea General Ordinaria 2026

Message from the Lay Consecrated Men to Regnum Christi – English Translation

Thy Kingdom Come!

SOCIETY OF APOSTOLIC LIFE

LAY CONSECRATED  MEN  OF  REGNUM CHRISTI

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

MESSAGE TO THE MEMBERS OF REGNUM CHRISTI

FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIETY OF APOSTOLIC LIFE OF THE LAY CONSECRATED MEN OF REGNUM CHRISTI

The Lord makes no noise, but his Kingdom springs up and grows in every corner of the world.

H.H. Leo XIV

At the end of our second Ordinary General Assembly, we turn to all of you, Lay Consecrated Men, lay members, Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, and Legionaries of Christ, our brothers and sisters with whom we share a charism, history, and mission, to thank you for your prayers and the closeness with which you have accompanied us in these days of discernment.

We conclude this assembly with hearts full of gratitude to God, to the Holy Father, and to each one of you. Recalling the words addressed to us by Pope Leo XIV, you are prophets who have inspired us and inspire us with God’s dreams for the path of our life. With you, we are witnesses that the Kingdom of Christ grows quietly in every corner of the world, freeing people from the bonds of selfishness and involving them in the wonders of his mercy. Regnum Christi is a reality in the heart of the Church and its charism, a gift from of the Paraclete we all carry and transmit for the evangelization of today’s society. The statutes of the Regnum Christi Federation gather and express the content of this gift, which we know we are called to safeguard, deepen, and make fruitful. We know that only through communion with you, “sharing a spirituality and apostolate,” will we Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi be able to fulfil God’s dream for our Society, since the communion wrought by the Holy Spirit “who transforms each vocation into service to the others, so that the Body of Christ may grow in history and fulfill its mission in the world.”[1] We want to continue to walk with all of you, our inseparable brothers and sisters, on the path of our own life and our community’s history, as a spiritual family and apostolic body, at the service of the Church and society.

In recent days, we have analyzed the situation of our Society and our contribution to Regnum Christi, seeking to discern the needs derived from our specific identity, as expressed in our constitutions, for the different dimensions of our life. Called to follow Christ who is consecrated to the Father and close to his brothers and sisters, we seek to live with self-giving in the midst of the world, offering our life, our work, and our professional and human capacities as a continuous offering at the service of the Kingdom. Thus, based on the contributions of our communities and members, we have reviewed our fraternal life, exercise of authority, spiritual life, formation, consecrated lay poverty, apostolic projection, vocational work, relationship with the other vocations of Regnum Christi, and attention to safe environments, in addition to making some adjustments to our proper law. But our lay consecration will only fully manifest its evangelizing power and become a credible sign of the Kingdom of God present in the midst of history if we integrate these and the other dimensions of life into the same orientation of love for Christ.

We have prepared a comprehensive communiqué for the members of our Society that will guide our path in these coming years, reflecting essential aspects of our vocation that we wanted to review with realism, gratitude, and a spirit of conversion. From our own identity as Lay Consecrated Men, we are called to contribute what the Spirit entrusts to us with creativity and responsibility: an evangelizing presence in temporal realities, the witness of a consecration fully inserted in the world and the ability to build bridges between the professional, social, and cultural life and the proclamation of the Gospel. As members of Regnum Christi, we serve the common mission by making the priorities and recommendations of the 2024 Regnum Christi General Convention our own.

The private audience that the Holy Father was kind enough to grant us and the words he addressed to us were, without a doubt, the greatest gift we received to illuminate our reflections. In addition, we received the contributions of Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda SJ, whom we thank from the bottom of our hearts for his generous attentiveness to us, and of Msgr. Brian Farrell LC, who spoke to us about the situation of the Church and our evangelizing mission. We were also aided by the lights offered to us by some members of the other vocations of Regnum Christi in the Assembly hall: lay members Francisco Gámez and Óscar Marroquín, Consecrated Women Gabriela Garza and Mónica Aguirre, and Legionaries Fr. Manuel María Salord and Fr. Gabriel María Abascal. We had the joy of having Fr. Eduardo Robles Gil, LC, preside over the Eucharistic Celebration at the beginning of the Assembly, and Fr. Carlos Gutiérrez López, LC, did so yesterday. We look forward to Fr. John Connor, LC, at tomorrow’s Thanksgiving Celebration. To all of them, our gratitude.

May the Virgin Mary teach us to live the vocation we have received with gratitude, to walk together, and to continually renew our self-giving so that the Society of Apostolic Life of the Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi may continue to be, in the midst of the world, a humble but fruitful sign of the presence of the Kingdom of Christ, together with this entire spiritual family gathered by God in the Regnum Christi Federation.

We ask for your help to continue to walk in growing fidelity to the Lord’s call.

Rome, 12 February 2026.

Delegates to the Ordinary General Assembly of Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi

1 Leo XIV, Address to the Participants in the General Assemblies of Societies of Apostolic Life

“Regnum Christi,” January 29, 2026

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Regnum Christi Spirituality Center Uncle Eddy

St Marina

/ Uncle Eddy

Dear Maurice, I commend you on your latest endeavor.  Organizing an impromptu NGO out of your Catholic student union in order to make waves at the UN meeting to discuss overpopulation and social justice is a tall order; that you pulled it off at all testifies to your fortitude, courage, and faith.  That you achieved such satisfactory results testifies to your keen cooperation with the Holy Spirit, who no doubt was your guide throughout the process. I hope others learn from your example. But (I feel it is my duty to warn you) your worthy efforts to defend the rights of people other than yourself must never turn into self-righteousness.  If you really want to grow in holiness, to follow Christ more and more closely, you need to practice that all-important lesson of “turning the other cheek” (Cf. Matthew 5:39) in response to insults and opposition directed against you personally.  This combination of personal humility and bold charity is exactly what Christ recommended, and what he lived. In this regard, you may be interested in reviewing the life of today’s saint.  Most “serious” historians deem it nothing more than a pious legend, but I am a firm believer that behind every legend is a true tale.  In any case, the story is quite instructive. Marina’s father joined a monastery in Bithynia (now Turkey) when his wife died, leaving the future saint in the care of a relative.  But he soon changed his mind. He retrieved his daughter, dressed her up like a boy, and convinced the abbot to let “him” stay in the monastery. Thus Marina passed her childhood in a life of prayer, surrounded by sublime examples of piety and Christian charity, until she was seventeen, at which point her father died.  She, however, was so enamored of our Lord, and of living a religious life, that she continued to disguise her gender and became a regular member of the monastic community. One of her responsibilities was driving a cart to a nearby village to pick up supplies.  This often required her to spend the night at the village Inn. When the Innkeeper’s unmarried daughter unexpectedly became pregnant, Marina was accused of being her seducer.  Marina accepted the accusation without resistance, and she was duly ejected from the monastery; she began instead to live as a beggar at its gates, still concealing her gender.  When the Innkeeper’s daughter had her son, the angry father forced Marina to take custody of him. Again the saint made no complaint and gladly took the baby under her care, along with the public shame brought on by the ridicule of the passers-by.  For five years she suffered thus in poverty and silence. At that point, the monks were so impressed by her patience that the abbot allowed her (together with the child) to reenter the monastery (they still thought she was a man).  Soon afterward, she died. When they went to prepare her body for burial, they finally discovered the truth. Although they were all struck with great remorse for their treatment of her, they were also powerfully edified by this woman’s heroic virtue in the face of such injustice against her person. You may want to think about St Marina’s example the next time you feel your blood start to boil at being insulted, misunderstood, scorned, or otherwise treated unfairly – meekness made her a saint; I don’t see why it can’t do as much good for the rest of us. Your affectionate uncle, Eddy

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February 12, 2026 – All Are Called

/ Daily Meditations

Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

 

Mark 7:24-30

Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” She replied and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.

Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, open my eyes to the mystery of your saving love and guide my heart to evangelize for your glory and the salvation of souls.

Encountering Christ:

  1. The Mystery of God’s Pedagogy: At first glance, Jesus’ refusal is astonishing, but not within the context of God’s pedagogy. In his divine wisdom, God formed a covenant with a select people, setting them apart to testify to the one true God. By them, he would fulfill his universal salvific intention, specifically through his Son, Jesus Christ. Despite the Jews’ privileged mission, faith, not blood, binds people into the Covenant. Ruth, the Moabite, is one example. When her husband died, she left her people to follow her mother-in-law, saying, “Your people shall be my people and your God, my God” (Ruth 1:16). This “gentile woman” eventually married into the line of the Covenant people and became the grandmother of David in Jesus’ ancestry. Aware of this truth, how do I look upon people who seem to be outsiders? Do I believe that God wants to find a way into everyone’s heart?

     

  2. Focused Mission: Jesus is one with the Father, in being and in his mission. He told the Apostles, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Mt 15:24). Nonetheless, from this core people, Jesus called them to go out to everyone. Before ascending to heaven he commissioned the Apostles to go first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles (cf. Acts 1:8). Saint Paul understood this commission when he says, “It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek” (Rom 1:16). Despite this mystery, God never excludes anyone from receiving his grace. The Syrophoenician woman is a testimony of the universal salvation that Jesus offers. In my own mission, I am called to evangelize, while at the same time, to be attentive to “surprises” that come my way.

     

  3. Faith-Filled and Humble Supplication: Jesus’ answer does not discourage the woman. Rather, it increases her appeal. Her humble supplication moves him to work the miracle from afar. The Catholic Church is the one, true, holy and apostolic Church, offering her children the fullness of faith. But we must also recognize grace at work outside the visible confines of the Church. In our mission, we may be called to re-evangelize those already among the flock of Catholics, or reach outside the Church’s walls to others who share a similar belief in Christ, or go further to the periphery where non-believers dwell. We ask the Lord for a heart that seeks the eternal good of each and every person.

Conversing with Christ: Show me the way of being a disciple in this world, aware that you can step into the lives of all people no matter how open they are. Help me to recognize your grace present in the world and assist you in bringing people to know, love, and follow you.

Resolution: Lord, today by your grace I will be attentive to ways of bringing your good news to others.

Jennifer Ristine is a consecrated woman of Regnum Christi who is dedicated to spiritual and faith formation through teaching, conferences, writing, and spiritual direction. While serving in Ancient Magdala she wrote Mary Magdalene: Insights from Ancient Magdala.

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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!