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. Christopher O’Connor, LC, is from Burke, Virginia, and was ordained in 2007. Since 2008 he has been helping with the formation of the novices and humanists at our Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut. He has served as an assistant to the Rector, professor, spiritual director, and, since August 2022, as novice director.
Fr. Chad Everts, LC, is originally from Wisconsin. After obtaining an associate degree in forestry, he entered the seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut, and his priestly formation then took him to Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. After his ordination in 2004, he returned to Paris to continue his mission with the youth that he had taken on during his apostolic internship there. Each year, he would organize over 10 ECYD camps and several family pilgrimages (to places like Rome, the Holy Land, and the Camino de Santiago in Spain). After 24 years in Europe, Fr. Chad returned to the US and joined the Chicago community, where he dedicated most of his time to youth work, spiritual direction, and vocation work. He then spent two years in Edgerton, Wisconsin, where he continued to organize ECYD camps and events for families in the upper Midwest. In 2024, he joined the Houston community, where he is currently the boys ECYD section director.
Mary Schwarz grew up in Rhode Island and met Regnum Christi through her father who was a philosopher professor in the formation center of the Consecrated Women of RC for more than 15 years. Mary was consecrated on the feast of Christ the King in the Jubilee Year 2000, and over the years has lived and served in Washington, DC, Dallas, TX, Cincinnati, OH, Chicago, IL, and Manila, Philippines. Since August 2026, she has been a member of the CRC community in New Orleans, LA where she serves primarily as a spiritual guide for college students and young adults. Mary completed her doctorate in 2020 on the philosophy of hospitality from the University of Dallas, and her spiritual direction certification from Divine Mercy University in 2022. She has also served on the staff of the Catholic Worldview Fellowship, a summer college study-abroad program in Germany and Italy, since 2017.
Fr. Tamson Nguyen, LC, was born in Kansas and grew up in Nebraska. After seven years of seminary studies, he was sent to San Jose, California, for his apostolic experience, then returned to Rome in 2018 to study theology. After his ordination in 2022, he returned to California, where he served at Canyon Heights Academy as chaplain and teacher and is a part of the LC community in Cupertino until 2026. He now resides in Fatima, Argentina, where he is chaplain of Mano Amiga School, a school for underprivileged children.
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.
