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
Michelle Gow is originally from Delaware and was consecrated in 1996. She has spent most of her consecrated life serving in schools in Brazil, the United States, and Mexico, including collaborating with the integral formation team at Mano Amiga and supporting the coordinators of Catholic formation of their schools in Mexico and Guatemala. Michelle is currently a member of one of the Consecrated communities in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is serving as middle school religion teacher and campus minister at Pinecrest Academy.
Fr. Eamonn Shelly, LC was born in Tipperary, Ireland and was ordained in 2002. Currently, Fr. Eamonn is part of the Houston Community and serves as Chaplain to Women’s and Men’s Sections of the Houston Locality.
Joan Kingsland is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has been a Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi since 1993. Holding licentiate and doctoral degrees in moral theology from the John Paul II Institute in Rome, Joan taught Catholic faith formation at the Highlands School in Dallas, Texas, from 2002–2006, moral theology at Mater Ecclesiae College in Rhode Island from 2006–2015, and moral theology and catechetics at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Cincinnati from 2016–2018. She was a professor at Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2018-2025, where she taught the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, Fundamental Morals and Christian Anthropology. She currently works for Ruah Woods, which is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, helping to equip K–12 teachers to teach Theology of the Body to their students.
Fr. Randall Meissen, LC, is from Salisbury, Missouri and was ordained in 2014. He has worked in secondary and higher education in the United States, Canada, Spain, and Italy. His most recent campus ministries were at the University of Southern California Caruso Catholic Center in Los Angeles, and at St. Leo University in Florida. He is currently the university chaplain and director of Catholic campus ministry, as well as an adjunct professor of humanities, at Florida Tech.
Fr. Jon Budke, LC, grew up on his family’s farm near Underwood, Minnesota, and was ordained in 2001. Since then, he has served as chaplain and board member of RC schools, spiritual director for the men and women of Regnum Christi, and director of RC sections. He has lived and served across North America: in Potomac, Maryland; Seattle, Washington; Denver, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; and Detroit, Michigan; as well as Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He also spent eight years as vice rector and administrator at the Novitiate and Legion of Christ College in Cheshire, Connecticut. He is currently serving as the superior of the LC Community in San Jose, California.
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.
