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
Renee Pomarico is from Philadelphia and became consecrated in 2000. She has served in the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Germany, and Italy in roles including youth and adult pastoral director, high‑school and college teacher, formator and dean of academics in the candidacy, community director, territorial secretary and territorial councilor of Europe. She currently serves in Rome as the International Communications Director for the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, as president of Multi‑Media International, and as a spiritual director. Her mission is rooted in the charism of Regnum Christi—living a consecrated lay vocation in the world and accompanying people through personal encounter in their daily realities, “going out to meet people where they are.”
Fr. Mathew P. Schneider, LC is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada and was ordained in 2013. Since then, he has served in a variety of ministries across Canada and the United States, primarily in education. Fr. Matthew is also has written on various websites, etc. His book God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us was published in 2022 and won spiritually book of the year with the Association of Catholic Publishers. He is currently serving at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut, where he teaches theology and helps with the formation of seminarians.
Fr. Robert DeCesare, LC was born and raised in Maryland and was ordained in 2003. He served in ECYD and vocational promoter in Wisconsin, Chicago, and Louisiana, as well as chaplain for Regnum Christi men and women in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Currently, he is serving as the assistant to the admissions director for Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, where he helps to direct camps and promote vocations. He finds it a blessing to be involved in the mission of inviting young men to want to make a difference, change the world, and transform culture for Christ.
Fr. Andreas Kramarz, LC was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, and grew up in Aachen. He is a Legionary since 1994 and was ordained in 2003. Since 1999, he has been teaching at the Legion of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut, and also served as academic dean from 2009 to 2019. In addition, he serves as a spiritual director, confessor, and music director. In 2013, Fr. Andreas earned his PhD in Classical Civilization at the University of Florida. From 2020 to 2022, Fr. Andreas was a visiting scholar with the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame to initiate an extensive research and publication project on the theological, philosophical, and pedagogical foundations for integral formation, a work he continues at present while teaching part-time in Cheshire.
Bryn Killoran was born in Ottawa, Canada and was consecrated in 1999. She has served in secretarial roles on a territorial and general level for the consecrated women for many years. She is currently part of the Bogotá community in Colombia.
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.
