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. Walter Schu, LC, grew up on a small farm in southwestern Minnesota, and was ordained in 1994. For most of his priesthood, he has been involved in the ministry of formation and education, serving as a teacher and director of studies at schools, seminaries, and universities, including the Novitiate and College of Humanities of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, and the International Center for Higher Studies in Rome. He is the author of The Splendor of Love on St. John Paul II’s theology of the body. He is currently an assistant professor and chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia.
Fr. Ryan Richardson, LC, is from New Orleans, Louisiana and was ordained in 2016. During his years of priestly formation, he served as an assistant to the instructor of novices at the LC seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut, and co-founded The Upper Room Rome, an apostolate that networks English-speaking Catholic college students in the Eternal City. He has since served as chaplain of Young Catholic Professionals in Dallas, Texas, and as spiritual director for FOCUS New Staff Training. He is currently the chaplain at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, and serves as the section director for the RC community on campus as well. Fr. Ryan is also the executive director of Catholic Worldview Fellowship, a summer study-abroad program in Germany and Italy for talented college students who seek to evangelize the culture.
Helen Yalbir is originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was consecrated in 2006. She later completed a bachelor’s degree in Religious and Pastoral Studies, magna cum laude, from Mater Ecclesiae College, and pursued additional formation through certifications in Catholic youth ministry at Franciscan University of Steubenville and spiritual direction at Divine Mercy University. From 2013 to 2021, Helen served in Washington, DC, accompanying and forming youth and young women in their growth as disciples and apostles of Christ, with a particular emphasis on personal accompaniment, evangelization, and leadership development. She is currently serving as community director of the Consecrated Women in Dallas, Texas, while accompanying and forming young adults in the Dallas area. In addition to her local apostolic mission, Helen has served the North American Territory in governance and advisory roles, including as councilor to the territorial director, as a member of the Regnum Christi Territorial Directive College, and currently as the territorial vicar of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in the North American territory.
Fr. Víctor Hugo Jiménez, LC, is from Medellín, Colombia, and was ordained in 2019. He is currently the Rector of the program of Humanities at the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut.
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.
