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. Patrick O’Loughlin, LC is from Syracuse, New York and was ordained in 2019. Since then, he has ministered as ECYD Boys Director in the greater Atlanta area and as an assistant chaplain at Pinecrest Academy. Currently, he is serving as the director of the North American ECYD Life Department, local director of RC Mission Corps, and on the Board of Trustees for Pinecrest Academy and Sacred Heart Apostolic School.
Sarah Gagnier grew up in the Pacific Northwest and was consecrated in 2001. Throughout her vocation, she has lived and served in five different countries, dedicated to evangelization and apostolic service. After serving five years as the lower and middle school campus minister at Pinecrest Academy in Cumming, Georgia, she is now living in Cincinnati, serving the Ohio Valley as the director of her community, as a formator in both the women’s and young adult sections, and as a spiritual director.
Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC is from San Diego, California, and was ordained in 2013. His vocation has taken him to Germany, Italy, the United States, and Central America, where he has directed teams for Regnum Christi youth work, including missions, retreats, and apostolic outreach. He also served for three years on the formation team of the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut. He is currently the assistant chaplain at Duke Catholic Center in Durham, North Carolina, and publishes regularly on his Substack “Beyond the Pew.”
Lu Pérez is from Mexico City, Mexico and she became consecrated in 2010. Before getting consecrated, she got a degree in communication from the Anahuac University in Mexico City and worked for Hewlett-Packard for a year in the marketing area. Lu has served in several roles across the United States, including with ECYD in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Overbrook Academy in Rhode Island, where she was also the local director of Regnum Christi Mission Corps. She is currently a member of the consecrated community in Houston, Texas, serving as part of the youth team, and is the director of the RCMC program in North America.
Br. Luca Giacometti is from Bolzano, Italy. When he was only eight years old, Br. Luca encountered Christ in a deep and personal way, and knew that he wanted to give his life to him, and he felt drawn to Regnum Christi and the life of the Legionaries of Christ that he knew, who for him were such examples of attentiveness and charity. During his adolescence, Br. Luca struggled in his faith life, and was eventually drawn back to Christ during a Regnum Christi territorial gathering. After this, he spent a missionary year in Madrid working with adolescents and young people who, like him, were searching for the Lord. After two years of novitiate in Madrid, he is now a first-year humanist at LC Cheshire
Fr. Stephen Cho, LC is from Seoul, South Korea and was ordained in 2023. He is currently back in South Korea, where he is serving in young adult ministry.
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.
