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. Kevin O’Byrne, LC is from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he joined Regnum Christi in high school. He gave a year in Regnum Christi Mission Corps during which he discerned to enter the Legionary novitiate in 2011. He was ordained in 2024. After becoming a deacon, he was sent to Dallas, Texas, to serve as the chaplain of the ECYD boys and of the Highlands School. In 2025, he began a new mission in Ireland where he ministers at Dublin Oak Academy as chaplain, director of spiritual formation and professor.
Margie Lademan was born and raised in Annapolis, Maryland, and was consecrated in 2003. Her assignments have mostly been to communities in the Midwest (Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit), where she has enjoyed providing mission experiences and integral formation for youth, young adults and families, accompanying individuals as a spiritual director, and doing music ministry on the side. She has experience working in Regnum Christi schools and served for a few years as a formation instructor in Overbrook Academy, an international boarding school program in Rhode Island. Since 2021, she has been residing in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she serves as the community director for the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, a spiritual director for young adults, and focuses on accompanying middle school and high school girls in their ECYD life and mission. You are invited to pray for her especially on September 18th, which is her birthday.
Fr. Daniel Rolczynski, LC, is from Richfield, Minnesota and, after seven years of formation in the USA and then four in Rome, was ordained a priest in 2016. He spent his first eight years of priesthood in Mexico: the first two were in Mexico City as chaplain in the young men’s section, and the next six as chaplain at the Anáhuac University in Mérida, Yucatán. He was then assigned to Raleigh, North Carolina where he is beginning his third year as chaplain of the Catholic Campus Ministry at NC State.
Victoria Backstrom was born in Minnesota and was consecrated in 2014. She lives in Madrid, Spain, and occasionally helps at camps, Caminos de Santiago, and missions, especially during the summers. She finished studying Business Administration and Theology last year and is currently working in the administration office of the Consecrated Women and on the pastoral team at a high school in Madrid.
Fr. Christopher Gronotte, LC, is from Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and was ordained in 2020. After his ordination, he served as the assistant director of admissions at Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. He is currently a member of the LC community in Detroit, Michigan, where he serves as a chaplain at Everest Collegiate & Academy in Clarkston.
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.
