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. John VanDorpe, LC is from Dayton, Ohio and was ordained in 2022. Since then, his work has been focused on helping young men discern their call to the priesthood and religious life, as a regional vocation director for the Legionaries of Christ (out of Atlanta, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana) and as the novice director assistant at the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut.
Natalia Santos is from El Salvador and has been a Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi for 17 years (or since 2007). Having grown up in ECYD and served as an ECYD missionary, she has dedicated her life to accompanying young people in their faith and personal growth. She served 5 years at Overbrook Academy and 8 years in Atlanta as the ECYD Director for girls. Since 2024, she serves in the Washington, DC area as the ECYD Director for girls, accompanying young women in their faith and leadership.
Br. Miguel Agudelo is from Medellin, Colombia. At five years old, he felt pulled to the priesthood, and at age 11, he entered the apostolic school in Rionegro, before joining the novitiate at age 17. In August of 2024, he made his first vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Legionary of Christ, and today, he is a second-year humanist at LC Cheshire.
Becci Sheptock is from Fort Worth, Texas and has been consecrated since 2007. After formation, she served in the D.C. area for ten years, most notably at Divine Mercy University, where she assisted with academic administration and accreditation. She is currently stationed in New Orleans Louisiana, the place where she first met Regnum Christi while a college student at Loyola University. She currently serves as the Director of Youth Ministry and Religious Education at St. Matthew the Apostle Parish.
Fr. Thomas White, LC was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was ordained in 2023. After spending most of his formation in Europe, where he also assisted at an academy in Dublin for middle school and high school boys, he returned to the United States to serve as the dean of formation at Oaklawn Academy in Edgerton, Wisconsin. Currently, he is a member of the LC community in Dallas, where he serves as the boys’ ECYD director.
Fr. Donal O’Keefe, LC was ordained in 1981. Recently, he was a part of the Los Angeles community where he served as an auxiliary team member of Guadalupe Radio. As of March 2026, he joined the Legionary community in Cancun, Mexico.
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.
