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. Javier Domínguez is originally from Mexico City, Mexico. Born into a practicing Catholic family, it wasn’t until the death of his grandfather that Br. Javier decided to draw closer to the Church and to God. That same year, he participated in missions with Mission Youth and Family, where he encountered a real and true Christ who loved him. After the missions, he joined Regnum Christi, and after high school, spent one year as an RC missionary. Living with the priests during that year, and experiencing their life of prayer and fraternal charity, eventually led Br. Javier, after much discernment and growth, to enter the novitiate. Today, he is a first-year humanist at LC Cheshire.
Fr. Daniel Pajerski, LC is from Raleigh, North Carolina, and was ordained in 2004. In the summer of 2005, he was assigned to work at Everest Collegiate High School and Academy in Clarkston, Michigan, where he oversaw the faith formation programs for the students, faculty, and parents. God blessed him with over 13 years of service there, striving to help students and families to get to know Jesus Christ and their Catholic faith better. Since 2019 he has been serving as president of Our Lady of Bethesda Retreat Center. He is also the superior of the LC community in Arlington, Virginia, assistant chaplain at Divine Mercy University, and assistant chaplain of Regnum Christi Northern Virginia. In his free time, Fr. Daniel keeps in shape mainly through running and is a fourteen-time marathoner, including six Boston marathons.
Maritza Silva is from Cotija, Mexico, and was consecrated in 1997. She studied in Madrid, Spain, then work at Oxford School in Mexico City till she arrived to the US in 2002. She was assigned to work at Mater Ecclesiae College as the Director of Financial and administrative affairs for 14 years. In 2014 she arrived to Houston, Texas and served as the director of the community of Consecrated Women and director of ECYD girls. She is currently a member of the Consecrated Women’s community in Cincinnati, serving the Ohio Valley in youth work and she continues serving the high school Encuentro group in the Woodlands, TX
Fr. Andrew Gronotte, LC was born to and raised by Tim and Mary Anne Gronotte, in Northern Kentucky. He has a brother (fr Christopher) and sister Elizabeth. He started his discernment by entering the apostolic school in New Hampshire at age 13. His brother followed him there the next year. A few long years later was ordained in 2016. He began his ministry in Washington, DC, continuing what he did during his pastoral years in the seminary, leading the ECYD boys’ section and managing Camp Castleton in Virginia. After he was asked to serve as assistant chaplain at Holy Spirit Preparatory School in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently serving Regnum Christi Ohio Valley as the ECYD boys director, coordinator of Camp River Ridge in Indiana, which his late father was instrumental in developing, and is chaplain of Elder High School. During his ministry, he has led many international and local mission trips for families and high schoolers, and led many more camps where many youth have began and deepened their friendship with God.
Daire Ryan is a consecrated woman who was consecrated in 1978. She is currently a member of the territorial directorate community of Consecrated Women in Atlanta, Georgia, serving as a formator for the women’s section, and in marriage apostolates.
Fr. Jerek Scherber, LC grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota and is the oldest of ten children. He entered apostolic school at the age of 14, and after high school, continued his formation in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada; in Cheshire, Connecticut; and in Rome. From 2012-2015, he was an assistant formator of novices in Cornwall and then in Cheshire. He then spent one year in Houston helping at a school and running camps and retreats. He was ordained in 2019, and he is currently a member of the LC community in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, where he serves as the ECYD director for RC Ontario.
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.
