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October 16, 2026

RC This Week: the most recent stories about Regnum Christi spirituality, communion, and mission – Oct 16

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Spirituality

 

RCTW-Oct-16-1What Pleases God

What pleases God most? The question is not irrelevant. When we love, we want to please the person we love. If we love God, we naturally want to please him. Thérèse of Lisieux—saint and Doctor of the Church, whose feast we celebrate every October—gives us an unexpected answer.

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RCTW-Oct-16-2Troubled Hearts: A Retreat Guide on Peace of Soul

In this Retreat Guide, we delve into Jesus’ words: “Do not let your hearts be troubled” (John 14:1). What did he really mean? How we can make that happen? “Troubled Hearts” will help you go deep in answering questions like those.

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Communion

 

RCTW-Oct-16-3Revealing Magdala: Archaeology Congress

We are happy to share that on October 8–9, Magdala hosted Revealing Magdala: Archaeological Workshop and Conference. Andrea Garza and Tehillah Lieberman, codirectors of the excavations at Magdala, organized the conference to bring together the different institutions working at the site.

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RCTW-Oct-16-4A Week of Prayer for All of Our Priests and Consecrated Members: October 18 – 24

Regnum Christi invites you 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.

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Mission

RCTW-Oct-16-5Church Headlines: Did Archaeologists FIND Noah’s Ark?! New Drilling Results

Welcome to this week’s Church Headlines, where we bring you the biggest Catholic news stories from around the world. This week: Pope Leo XIV to Undergo Lung Surgery, did researchers find Noah’s Ark and more.

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RCTW-Oct-16-6It Begins with a Smile: RC Spotlight on Ellen Miller

Ellen demonstrates this Regnum Christi spiritual practice perfectly. She describes the time when she felt a call to become a nurse. It was late in life, and she was a single mom working 3 jobs. Learn more about her story.

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Vocation

 

RCTW-Oct-16-7January Shoreline

The Shoreline Retreat is a weekend for college-aged young women who love Jesus and want to go deeper in their relationship with Him while discerning their future. Hosted by the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in Atlanta, the retreat offers a prayerful space to encounter Christ in the sacraments.

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RCTW-Oct-16-8Thanksgiving “Test Your Call” (TYC)

Test your call at this Thanksgiving break and prepare yourself for an intense but beautiful weekend, including: Daily Mass and adoration, opportunities for Spiritual Direction and Confession, workshops and guidance on discernment and prayer, hikes and conversation with the brothers.

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Retreats

Retreats for Men
Men’s Spiritual Exercises, Dec 10-13, Lincoln, NE 
Young Men Spiritual Exercises, Dec 15-17, Houston, TX
RC Renewal Retreat for Men, Jan 7-10, Atlanta, GA
Ignition 2027 Center Harbor, Dec 29 – Jan 2, Center Harbor, NH
Ignition 2027 Cheshire, Dec 29 – Jan 2, Cheshire, CT

Retreats for Women
Sacred Encounters – a women’s retreat, Oct 16-18, Detroit, MI Aflame 2027 ECYD High School Girls, Dec 29 – Jan 1, Benton, TN

Retreats for Couples
Three to Get Married Marriage Preparation, Oct 22-25, Washington, DC
Three to Get Married Marriage Preparation, Nov 12-15, Washington, DC
Three to Get Married Marriage Preparation, Dec 10-13, Washington, DC

Vocational Discernment
Come & See: Seminary Guest Visit, Oct 30 – Nov 1, Cheshire, CT
Thanksgiving “Test Your Call” (TYC), Nov 27-30, Cheshire, CT
Advent Spiritual Exercises, Dec 16-21, Cheshire, CT
Christmas “Test Your Call” (TYC), Dec 29 – Jan 2, Cheshire, CT
January Shoreline, Jan 1-4, Atlanta, GA

Other Events
2026 North American RC Women’s Convention, Oct 29 – Nov 1, Mundelein, IL
Regnum Christi Men’s Conference, Jan 15-18, Houston, TX
Hope Awakens 2026: An Online Regnum Christi Gathering, Dec 1, Online

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A Week of Prayer for All of Our Priests and Consecrated Members: October 18th – 24th

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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

Schu_headshotFr. Walter Schu, LC, grew up on a small farm in southwestern Minnesota, and was ordained in 1994. For most of his priesthood, he has been involved in the ministry of formation and education, serving as a teacher and director of studies at schools, seminaries, and universities, including the Novitiate and College of Humanities of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, and the International Center for Higher Studies in Rome. He is the author of The Splendor of Love on St. John Paul II’s theology of the body. He is currently an assistant professor and chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia.

Richardson_headshotFr. Ryan Richardson, LC, is from New Orleans, Louisiana and was ordained in 2016. During his years of priestly formation, he served as an assistant to the instructor of novices at the LC seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut, and co-founded The Upper Room Rome, an apostolate that networks English-speaking Catholic college students in the Eternal City. He has since served as chaplain of Young Catholic Professionals in Dallas, Texas, and as spiritual director for FOCUS New Staff Training. He is currently the chaplain at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, and serves as the section director for the RC community on campus as well. Fr. Ryan is also the executive director of Catholic Worldview Fellowship, a summer study-abroad program in Germany and Italy for talented college students who seek to evangelize the culture.

Yalbir_headshotHelen Yalbir is originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was consecrated in 2006. She later completed a bachelor’s degree in Religious and Pastoral Studies, magna cum laude, from Mater Ecclesiae College, and pursued additional formation through certifications in Catholic youth ministry at Franciscan University of Steubenville and spiritual direction at Divine Mercy University. From 2013 to 2021, Helen served in Washington, DC, accompanying and forming youth and young women in their growth as disciples and apostles of Christ, with a particular emphasis on personal accompaniment, evangelization, and leadership development. She is currently serving as community director of the Consecrated Women in Dallas, Texas, while accompanying and forming young adults in the Dallas area. In addition to her local apostolic mission, Helen has served the North American Territory in governance and advisory roles, including as councilor to the territorial director, as a member of the Regnum Christi Territorial Directive College, and currently as the territorial vicar of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in the North American territory.

Jiménez_headshotFr. Víctor Hugo Jiménez, LC, is from Medellín, Colombia, and was ordained in 2019. He is currently the Rector of the program of Humanities at the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut.

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.

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Regnum Christi Spirituality Center Uncle Eddy

St Margaret Mary Alacoque

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Dear Marge, It doesn’t surprise me that your commendable and considerable efforts to get that sorority back into shape have gone unacknowledged.  Now everyone is enjoying a lively and healthy atmosphere and engaging in productive and worthy activities, and no one gives you any thanks at all – they even pass over you when it comes to electing officers.  I’m not surprised, because, well, as difficult as it may be to accept, that’s the way we human beings are: ungrateful.  But far from causing you discouragement, you can take advantaged of the experience to purify your intentions (the more we do things to please God instead of to win fame, the freer we become to love him and to receive his love), and to grow closer to Christ, who has never stopped experiencing monstrous ingratitude from the very souls he came to save. That was the core of his message to today’s saint.  Margaret Mary was a talented and popular young lady of French nobility (well, near-nobility), well educated and with a bright future in high society.  But something held her back from acceding to her suitors.  Brooking consistent and energetic opposition from her family, she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial when she was 22.  There she continued living out the virtue she had practiced since childhood, especially humility, charity, and a love for our Lord in the Blessed Eucharist.  But her years in the convent were filled with suffering as well as spiritual consolation.  She was treated harshly by some of her superiors for her clumsiness and inability to follow the ordinary spiritual itinerary of a Visitation nun.  Of course, it wasn’t her fault, since it was Jesus himself who was leading her down the extraordinary paths of contemplative prayer, visions, and strong interior manifestations.  But she persevered in obedience both to her religious superiors and to the Lord, who rewarded her virtue with a series of apparitions (over the course of a year and half between December 1673 and June 1675) in which he spoke to her of what would later become known as the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  For the rest of her life, Margaret Mary would propagate this devotion through her prayer, her fidelity, and her influence on another saint who became her confessor, Claude de la Colombiere.  Through it all, her trials never ceased, and she had to suffer ongoing contradiction from her sisters and superiors, along with intense interior temptations and trials.  Such is the lot of all who closely follow our Lord! It would do you well to read a detailed biography (and the autobiography) of this chosen soul, but I would like to leave you with some of the most famous of Christ’s words to her.  In these words you will find meaning for your own current dilemma, and you will see what a grace God has given you, to experience a little bit in your own life what Jesus has been experiencing so intensely for centuries.  In his final apparition to St Margaret Mary, our Lord showed her his heart and told her, “Behold the heart which has so much loved men that it has spared nothing, even exhausting and consuming itself in testimony of this love.  Instead of gratitude I receive from most only indifference, by irreverence and sacrilege and the coldness and scorn that men have for me in the sacrament of love [i.e. the Eucharist].” So if your sorority sisters have shown you ingratitude, you can better identify with Christ’s suffering.  Therefore, you will better be able to accompany him and relieve his loneliness by visiting him in the Blessed Sacrament. Prayerfully yours, Uncle Eddy

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October 16, 2026 – God Sees

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Friday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

 

Luke 12:1-7

At that time: So many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. Jesus began to speak, first to his disciples, “Beware of the leaven—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees. There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops. I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one. Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? Yet not one of them has escaped the notice of God. Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.”

Opening Prayer: Lord, as I come before you today to be blessed by your presence, help me to remember that I am your precious child, and have nothing to fear.

Encountering Christ:

  1. Hypocrisy: Jesus told his disciples that everything spoken in darkness will eventually come to light. Our whispers will be proclaimed on the housetops! The Pharisees were probably very shaken by these words of Jesus because of their obvious hypocrisy. As Christians, however, we should have nothing to fear, right? When we live authentically, our integrity ensures that our secrets will not embarrass us or offend God if they are widely shared. When we fail at charity, and we all sometimes do, our remedy is the sacrament of reconciliation. The grace of confession cleanses our souls and we are, once again, empowered to live transparently.

     

  2. Fear: All people fear death—our own and the deaths of those we love. Jesus knows that,but he encourages us, “his friends,” to fear only the one who has the power to cast us intoGehenna. After all, Jesus has taught us that the death of a holy soul is a beautiful reality.That soul fulfills its destiny and remains forever with God in heaven. Even those whostop at purgatory can rejoice that they will soon arrive at their eternal home. While welive as sojourners on this earth, however, we should live with a holy fear of God, the onlyone who has the power over sin and death. Father, lead us not into temptation, but deliverus from evil. Amen.

     

  3. God Sees: Jesus reveals to us an intimate truth about God the Father—the Father knows the number of hairs on our heads. He notices and concerns himself with everything about us. We are worth “more than many sparrows,” which is quite an understatement considering that Jesus spilled his Precious Blood to redeem each and every one of us. In our broken humanity, we are often tempted to discount our value, to call ourselves “worthless,” to give into sadness or discouragement about some distasteful aspect of ourselves. To God, our value is inestimable. When we deny this fact of our creation, we offend our loving Father.

Conversing with Christ: Lord, help me to see myself and others as you see us. Each one of us is a masterpiece of your creation. Our beauty may be temporarily hidden, or even disfigured by sin, but you value us more than we can ever value ourselves. Fill my soul with this truth, Lord, so that I run to your embrace through the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist. Keep me clean and pure so that I may one day spend my life with you in heaven.

Resolution: Lord, today by your grace I will make a thorough examination of conscience to prepare for the Sacrament of Reconciliation at the earliest opportunity. 

For Further Reflection: Bishop Barron: “The Irresistible Beauty That Draws Atheists to God”

Maribeth Harper celebrated paying the last tuition bill for her kids’ college by writing a book for parents who have college-aged young adults: A Spiritual Toolbox: Tips for Parenting through the First Year of College. She is a wife of over thirty-five years, mother of four, and grandmother of twelve and counting.

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What If I Can’t Kneel Easily at Communion?

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Q: I believe that kneeling to receive Communion is the right way to receive. I would do it, but the communion rails are gone, and I am afraid that I wouldn’t be able to get up again without some difficulty. What can I do to reconcile my thoughts with reality? I use a cane. — Liz

Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC:

I’m sorry to hear that it’s not easy for you to kneel as you would like to do.

Given your circumstances, it’s better not to kneel in this case.

This isn’t a show of disrespect to the Eucharist; rather, by remaining standing, there is less chance of a disruption at Mass if you can’t get back up easily.

And you don’t want to be in that position when you have just received the Eucharist.

So, to ensure that you consume the host quickly and that the Communion line isn’t disrupted, it might be better to remain standing.

Jesus will understand. Your interior disposition, of course, can remain eminently respectful of the Eucharist.

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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!