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. Fernando Herrera, LC, was born in Manizales, Colombia and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. He was ordained in 2004. From 2004 to 2009, he served as director of the Regnum Christi youth section in Puebla, Mexico, and from 2009 to 2015, he returned to Italy to study and assist at the European University in Rome. In 2015, Fr. Fernando moved to Santiago, Chile, to serve as chaplain at Everest and Cumbres Schools and as chaplain to Regnum Christi youth groups. In November 2024, he arrived in Houston, Texas, where he is currently serving as assistant chaplain for the Regnum Christi adult sections and supporting the Hispanic ministry in the local parishes.
Jennifer Ristine grew up in the Chicago area and discovered her call to the Consecrated Life in Regnum Christi while living in Seattle as a special education teacher. Since her consecration in 1997, she has lived and worked in Rhode Island, Florida, Washington DC, Spain, Ireland and Magdala, Israel. Now she resides in the Detroit community where she assists in the Regnum Christi locality and continues as an instructor for the online spiritual director certificate at Divine Mercy University. She holds Masters in Theology (Catholic Distance University), Ignatian Spirituality (Comillas Pontifical University), and the Mystics (Catholic University of Avila, Spain) which influences her love for faith and spiritual formation through spiritual direction, teaching, writing, conferences, and retreats. You can find her books on Amazon.com: Jennifer Marie Ristine: books. You can find her daily meditations on epriest and RC Meditations.
Fr. Fergal Ó Dúill, LC, is originally from Dublin, Ireland. After working some years as an engineer he joined the Legion in 1993 and was ordained in 2004. He served in Saltillo and Satélite, Mexico and in Dublin, Ireland. In 2015 he was posted to Dallas, Texas, where he served first as a chaplain at The Highlands School and then as Director of the Regnum Christ men’s section, preaching retreats, directing apostolate, and offering spiritual direction. In June 2026 he was named Regional Vocation Director for Texas and became a member of the Houston Community in Spring, TX.
Fr. Benjamin O’Loughlin, LC, born in Syracuse, NY, joined the Legionaries of Christ out of high school in 2001. His studies took him through Bad Münstereifel, Germany (novitiate 2001-2003), Salamanca, Spain (humanities studies 2003-2005), and finally Rome, Italy, where he graduated summa cum laude from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum with a master’s degree in ethics and anthropology and a bachelor’s degree in theology. He was ordained a priest in Rome, Italy, on December 13, 2014. On his first assignment in Detroit, Michigan, he ministered as boys formation director for international students at Everest Collegiate High School & Academy from 2014 to 2015, and then as ECYD Boys Director until 2018. He then spent a year in Mexico City as chaplain to the Regnum Christi young men’s section, based out of the Anahuac University, before returning to the United States, with Regnum Christi young adult ministry roles in Dallas and Philadelphia. From 2022-2025 he directed the Regnum Christi North America Young Adult Life Department. In his current role as a Regnum Christi Locality Representative, Fr. Benjamin provides support and oversight for a third of our Regnum Christi localities in the US and Canada.
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.
