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
Dóri Hangodi is originally from Budapest, Hungary. After completing her college studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, she served as an RCMC in Rome. Responding to God’s persistent call, she was consecrated in 1997 in Rome, Italy. After finishing her studies in Spain, she was assigned to youth ministry in the newly established community of consecrated women in Los Angeles. There as a “road team”, she accompanied girls, young adults, and women in their faith journeys, and led numerous camps and retreats across the West Coast. In 2005, she served for five years in southern Germany (Bavaria), where she also founded an official FC Bayern fan club, “Rückenwind” (“Tailwind”), built on spiritual foundations. Afterward, she served two years in Vienna, Austria, and six years in Budapest, Hungary, where she supported the RC school, St. John Paul II School Center and completed her master’s degree in theology. She is currently a member of the Dallas consecrated community and serves as a formation instructor at The Highlands School in Irving, Texas.
Br. José Yotzín Cárdenas is originally from Colima, Mexico. Becoming an altar server ignited his faith and drew him closer to Christ, and he entered the minor seminary. After leaving the seminary to further mature his vocation, he joined Regnum Christi and collaborated with the youth ministry in his diocese and throughout Mexico. During a visit to the Legionary novitiate in Monterrey, he felt immediately that he was home, and that the Legionaries of Christ were his family. Br. José is currently a first-year humanist at LC Cheshire, and made his first profession of vows as a Legionary of Christ in August of 2025.
Fr. Matthew Kaderabek, LC, was born in Detroit and grew up in Ann Arbor, MI. After finishing his Mechanical Engineering degree at The University of Michigan, he went active duty in the US Army Corps of Engineers for four years before “changing armies.” He was ordained in Rome on Christmas Eve, 2003, and returned to the USA, where he has served his 22 years as a priest. He was eight years in the Chicago area serving as Chaplain at both East Lake Academy in Lake Forest and Everest Academy in Lemont. Since 2013 he has been Middle School and Lower School Chaplain at Pinecrest Academy in Cumming, GA.
Kristina Piñero was born in Xalapa, Mexico, and was consecrated in 1993. She has worked in pastoral ministry throughout this time, in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Israel, primarily in youth and parent catechetical formation. She has served as principal at two schools, one in Monterrey, Mexico, and another in Rhode Island, USA. She holds two master’s degrees, in Religious Sciences and in Spirituality, and earned her Doctor of Ministry from the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio. Kristina is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, where she teaches candidates in permanent diaconate formation, first-year seminarians, and courses in Children’s Spirituality. She also serves as a consultant and speaker for the Children’s Initiatives Project at MACC and regularly presents on evangelization and catechetics for children and families.
Fr. Edward Hopkins, LC was born and raised in Central New York State and was ordained in 1991, alongside two of his brothers. After ordination, he has worked as vocation director and as youth director, offering spiritual direction, retreats, and apostolic formation to youth and young adults. He has also worked with many Regnum Christi sections and members during his years of travel throughout the United States. He served in the New York Tri-State locality as section director for RC men and women, with Pre-Cana marriage preparation, marriage retreats, couples ministry, and family life, and he served as national vocation director for five years. He currently lives in Atlanta, serving as the assistant chaplain of the RC men’s section and head of marriage and family apostolates, and as assistant vocation director for the South.
Fr. Jason Huynh, LC grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and was ordained in 2012. He spent ten years in Chicago in youth and school ministry. He is now serving in Dallas, Texas, as the superior of the Legionary community and the Regnum Christi men’s section chaplain.
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.
