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
Br. Keiren Hamilton is a second-year humanist at the LC novitiate in Cheshire, Connecticut. Br. Keiren attended Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, and in his final year of high school, he decided to enter the Candidacy program, where his call to become a Legionary priest was confirmed. Br. Keiren made his first vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in August of 2024.
Maria Knuth is originally from Minnesota and was consecrated in the year 2000. She has spent most of her consecrated life serving in the territory of North America, supporting Regnum Christi and ECYD sections and working in RC schools. She currently serves as director of the Area of Lay Member Support on the Mission Support Team for the North American Territory and as a formator for the Regnum Christi women, young adult, and ECYD girls’ sections in New Orleans and North Shore, Louisiana.
Fr. Robert Presutti was born in Italy and grew up in the Chicago area. He was ordained in 1998. Over the years, he has served primarily in vocations, formation, and education. Throughout his priestly life, he has served as a spiritual director to people from diverse backgrounds and social conditions and has experience leading Spiritual Exercises in different formats. He is the chaplain of the RC Women’s Section in Washington, DC. On February 5, 2026, he was elected by the Legionaries’ General Chapter as a General Councilor for 2026-2032.
Tony MacDonnell was born and raised in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was consecrated in 2007. He is a member of the Lay Consecrated Men’s community in the Arlington diocese of Virginia. Tony is currently living out his vocation to live and spread the good news in society and in the professional world by serving as the director of Campus Ministry at Divine Mercy University and teaching Theology of the Body at a local Catholic high school.
Fr. Peter Devereux was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the fourth of seven boys, three of whom are Legionary priests. Fr. Peter was ordained in 2000 and has served throughout the United States, including Atlanta (as chaplain at Pinecrest Academy), San Jose, and Los Angeles. Currently, he resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he has been the pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church since August 2020.
Laura Matthews was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was consecrated in 2006. She has carried out her mission in the fields of education and formation, serving as a formation instructor in schools in the United States, Spain, and Switzerland. She has collaborated in international formation programs for Consecrated Women, and currently serves as the community director of the Territorial Directorate community in Atlanta and as National Vocations Director of the North American Territory.
Fr. Mark Haydu was born in Akron, Ohio, and was ordained in 2007; that same year, he became the director of the Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums. During that time, he published two award-winning art books and served as a spiritual director for the Legionary seminarians and Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in Rome. In 2016, he joined the Legionary community in Rye, New York, working as the national chaplain of Lumen Institute. Fr. Mark currently serves as local chaplain to Lumen and as a territorial councilor for the Legionaries of Christ, North American Territory.
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.
