A Week of Prayer for All of Our Priests and Consecrated Members: August 30th – September 5th
Regnum Christi invites our entire spiritual family and all our friends to join us in praying especially for our brothers and sisters living the consecrated vocations of Legionary priests, Consecrated Women, and Lay Consecrated Men in our territory.
Each week throughout the year, we will pray together for a different group of Legionaries and Consecrated, spanning all the communities across the territory, as our “Priests and Consecrated of the Week.”
Our Consecrated members are men and women who have said yes to Christ’s call to follow him, leaving everything behind to dedicate their entire lives to him and to join him in the mission of building his Kingdom. We come together to support them with our prayer, asking our Lord to strengthen them, hold them close to his Sacred Heart, and give them his deep joy as they live their mission each day.
This Week We Pray for
Fr. Simon Devereux, LC was born in New Zealand and is the youngest of seven brothers. Since his ordination in 2010, his priestly ministry has included helping to found the Development Office at the Legionaries’ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut. Assigned to California in 2018, he now serves in the Legionary community in Cupertino, where he ministers primarily to young adult immigrants in both English and Spanish. A certified spiritual director through Divine Mercy University, he is passionate about accompanying young adults in their desire to become saints. Outside of ministry, he enjoys reading literature, hiking with his Legionary brothers, and training for the annual Morro Bay Triathlon.
Karla Amezcua is from Queretaro, Mexico and was consecrated in 2002. Karla has worked in directive roles both in Everest and Overbrook Academy. Between those two assignments she lived seven years in Colombia, doing ministry at our RC schools, and RC localities of Medellin, Bogota, and in road trips to other cities. Since 2020 she has lived in DC and Cincinnati, serving Lumen Institute, the RC women and young women and doing road trips to Philadelphia serving the RC locality. Karla currently is the RC YA’s section director of Philadelphia, and she is also developing an online ministry to help women discover their mission in life. Throughout all these ministries, Karla has developed a great passion for expanding the RC charism through missions with the poor, the homeless and the outcast of society. That ministry inspired her to write a book in Spanish about the power we hold in our eyes to heal relationships.
Fr. John Luxbacher, LC is enjoying his current assignment as Pastor of Ascension Catholic Parish in Calgary. Ordained in December 2001, he will soon celebrate 25 years of priesthood, many of which were dedicated to the formation of brother Legionaries, both as an Instructor of Novices and as a member of the Formation Staff in Rome.
Kate O’Connor was born in Stratford, Ontario and was consecrated in 1997. Her formation and apostolic training were in Brazil and in the US, where she carried out a variety of apostolates in the areas of vocation and campus ministry, catechesis, ECYD and Regnum Christi sections. In Houston, Texas, she was prefect of discipline and a member of the administrative team at Northwoods Catholic School, as well as collaborating with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in the Office for Vocational and Campus Ministry. Since 2016, she is a member of the RC ladies’ auxiliary team in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2020, she took on the role of territorial director of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in Brazil, which was renewed for a second three-year term in 2023. As of January 2025 she serves on the Territorial Counsel for the Consecrated Women in South America.
Fr. Markus Stehmer, LC is from Cologne, Germany and was ordained in 2023. Shortly after, he received his first assignment in Philadelphia, where he served young adults and was the Lumen chaplain. He is currently a member of the LC community in Atlanta, serving as the assistant chaplain to the RC young men’s section. He is also the vocations director for Georgia and region.
Prayer for Priests and Consecrated Members in Regnum Christi
God our Father,
We thank you for our spiritual family of Regnum Christi, and for those within it that you have called to total consecration as Legionaries of Christ, Consecrated Women, and Lay Consecrated Men.
We ask you to renew their encounter with your Son Jesus Christ,
who goes out to meet them and reveals the love of his heart to them.
Deepen their personal love for Christ
and their trust in his love for them.
Gather them close to him,
form them,
and send them out accompanied by your Son,
in the mission of forming apostles and Christian leaders who make your Kingdom present in hearts, in families, and in society.
Send your Holy Spirit to sanctify and strengthen them,
And to help them respond generously and courageously to their mission each day.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
