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
Jill Swallow grew up in Versailles, Ohio and was consecrated in 2001. Jill spent the first eight years of her consecrated life at Mater Ecclesiae College in Rhode Island as both a student and a dean of students for the freshman and sophomore classes. Before her assignment in Houston, Jill served within ECYD and Regnum Christi in the Ohio Valley, and as formation director at Everest Collegiate High School and Academy in Clarkston, Michigan. In Houston, she serves in vocation support and is the section director of RC young women. She is also on the leadership team for RC Music Collective.
Fr. Ícaro de Faria, LC is from São Paulo, Brazil and was ordained in May of 2026. He entered the novitiate after high school, when he was 18 years old. He was atracted by the fraternal spirit, formation and fidelity to the Church in the Legion. He spent his formation in Brazil, Mexico and Rome, enriching his experience of the Regnum Christ spirit across different places and cultures. He currently works as a professor and formator in the Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, CT.
Br. Ángel Torres, LC is from Zamora, Mexico. His vocational journey began when he was 12 years old and entered the apostolic school in Guadalajara. There, he came to know God in a personal and profound way, through prayer, the sacraments, his friends and mentors, and, above all, Legionary charity. After high school, he entered the novitiate, and today he is a first-year humanist at LC Cheshire.
Yvonne Fontaine was born in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada and gave her life to Jesus as a Lay Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in 2006. For many years, she has supported youth programs in Dallas, Austin, Denver, Australia, and Detroit. She then moved to Atlanta and became the high school campus minister at Holy Spirit Prep and served on the leadership team. Currently Yvonne lives in our Detroit community. She is studying and offering spiritual direction to women.
Fr. Michael Picard, LC is from Lake Charles, LA and was ordained December 12, 2011. He joined the Legionaries of Christ 2000 spent first two years as a brother in Cornwall Novitiate and returned to Cornwall for his first two years as a priest. Spent 10 years as ECYD Director in Dallas, TX.He is currently a member of the LC community in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he serves as the assistant chaplain at Clear Water Academy and is the Chaplain/director of ECYD in Western Canada.
Fr. Kermit Syren, LC was born in Anchorage, Alaska and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991. Fr. Kermit founded Camp Kodiak in 1996. He had a dream of combining outdoor adventure with faith formation. Fr. Kermit wanted boys and their dads to experience together what he had enjoyed as a boy: the Catholic faith and the beauty of God’s natural creation. Fr. Kermit is currently the men’s section chaplain for Regnum Christi Dallas.
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.
