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. Fernando Correa is from Zacatecas, Mexico and is currently a second-year humanist at the LC novitiate in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was at Everest School in Mexico when he met Legionary priests living the life of leadership, discipline, and focus, where he heard the first call of his vocation. In August of 2024, he made his first vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Legionary of Christ.
Fr. Jason Smith is originally from Minnesota and was ordained in 2006. Since then, he has served as a Legionary priest throughout the United States, primarily in Michigan and New York, where he was involved in youth and adult ministry and served as the parochial vicar at the historic Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in lower Manhattan. His current role has called him south, where he now serves as the superior of the Houston community of the Legionaries of Christ.
Marial Corona is an alumnus of the Regnum Christi school in Puebla, Mexico, Marial Corona has been consecrated 22 years. In 2020, she obtained her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Navarra with a thesis on John Henry Newman and his commitment to truth, published by the Catholic University of America Press in 2023. She is part of the community of consecrated women in Chicago and works full-time as the Director of Operations at the Lumen Christi Institute, the home of the catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Chicago. While mission work has allowed her to see the beauty of Christ and the Church in countless faces, the University is her passion.
Fr. Owen Kearns is originally from Dublin, Ireland, and was ordained in 1983. He has been a vocation director, a professor of humanities, editor of the National Catholic Register and Faith and Family Magazine. With Fr Patrick Langan he co-authored The Quest for the Core of the Regnum Christi Charism. He is currently chaplain to the Regnum Christi men’s and women’s sections and the Consecrated Women in Washington, DC, and chaplain at Our Lady of Bethesda Retreat Center in Maryland.
Mélanie Pilon is from Arnprior, Ontario, Canada, and was consecrated in 2006. She has spent much of her vocation serving the youth and families in Canada, Ireland, France and the United States. She is currently the assistant to the delegate for the Regnum Christi Territorial Directive College and a spiritual director for young women.
Fr. Hans Candell was born in El Salvador and was ordained a priest in May of 2025. He served as dean of apostolics at Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, for two years, and has dedicated himself to admissions and vocational work, accompanying families as they discern God’s call. He is currently the dean of pre-candidates at Sacred Heart Apostolic School and ECYD director in Rolling Prairie.
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.
