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. Jose Luis LaPorta is from Mexico City, Mexico and is a second-year humanist at LC Cheshire. Although he felt the first stirrings of a vocation as a child and young teenager, it wasn’t until years later, hearing God’s call again during a retreat, that he decided to give a year to Regnum Christi Mission Corps in Madrid. Knowing that God had been calling him to the priesthood all along, he entered the candidacy program the next summer, and in August of 2024, he made his first vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Legionary of Christ.
Fr. Frank Formolo, LC was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was ordained in 2003. Since then, he has worked in promotion and chaplaincy at two Legionary schools in Texas and served as vice rector and administrator of the LC community in Dallas as well as Chaplain of the Highlands, CRC, and director of women’s section. He also served at the Center of Formation in Thornwood, New York. He has also served as superior and administrator of the Edgerton LC community in Wisconsin and as vice rector of Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. He achieved an executive master’s degree in nonprofit administration in 2019 at the University of Notre Dame, as well as working as territorial administrator for the Legionaries of Christ in North America.
Katie Tuttle was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She met the Consecrated Women on a Regnum Christi mission trip to Mexico for Holy Week during her senior year of high school. She began discerning her vocation while studying at the University of Dayton and was consecrated in 2003. Since then, she has worked as an assistant secretary in the office of the territorial director, and as a mentor and formator for the young women in the Immaculate Conception Program in Michigan. In 2016, she moved to Houston to work in young adult and vocation ministry. She is currently the director of the consecrated community in Houston and has been a member of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi Territorial Council since 2023.
Fr. Thomas Murphy, LC was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He entered the Legion of Christ in 1997. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2009. After ordination, he spent 9 years in youth ministry serving in Conquest and ECYD in Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is now working at Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, where he accompanies students in their integral formation and helps them grow in their friendship with Christ, so they can properly discern and respond freely to God’s call in their lives.
Rachel Peach grew up in Hartville, Ohio and was consecrated in 2010. She served in Texas in the area of youth ministry, working with ECYD and Regnum Christi high school groups, and supporting Catholic schools and parishes across the archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. In 2020, she moved back to her home state and currently lives in Cincinnati, where she serves as the ECYD girls director in the Ohio Valley.
Fr. Thomas Flynn, LC was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and was ordained in 2011. His apostolic work has included seminary formation, youth work, school chaplain, retreat director, and spiritual director. Fr. Thomas currently serves as assistant chaplain for the Ohio Valley Regnum Christi Women’s section, and as chaplain at Mercy Health Hospital in Anderson and Clermont, Ohio. He also ministers to inmates for their sacramental and spiritual care at Warren Correctional Institute, and serves as the chaplain of Mater Filius Queen City, a nonprofit maternity home in Cincinnati that provides housing and resources for pregnant women and mothers experiencing financial difficulties and homelessness. Fr. Thomas is an avid painter and regularly gives artist retreats in collaboration with the Called to Create apostolate in Cincinnati.
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.
