Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college, he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and baseball coach. He then spent a year as a professional actor in Chicago before entering the religious Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in 1993. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010.
He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film. Fr. John has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on NBC, CNN, Fox, and the BBC. He also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican’s 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist.
His most widely known books are The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer and 60 Days to Becoming a Missionary Disciple.
His most recent book is Spiritual But Not Religious: The Search for Meaning in a Material World.
Fr. John resides in Atlanta and serves as Territorial Vicar for the Legionaries of Christ.
Day 9 Weak but Wonderful But here is the great surprise: God has given the human person, the weak creature, a wonderful dignity: he has made him a little less
Day 8 Freeing My Heart Undoubtedly, the journey is arduous; it demands availability, courage, self-denial, in order to make one’s life, as Christ did his, a “gift” of love to
Day 7 Nourishing My Heart There is no doubt that spiritual formation ought to occupy a privileged place in a person’s life. Everyone is called to grow continually in intimate
Day 6 Focusing on the Heart Today, on this Lord’s Day, I wish to invite all those who are listening to my words, not to forget our immortal destiny: life
Day 5 Loving with My All I praise the Lord with you, because he is so great and beautiful a Love as to deserve the priceless gift of the whole
Day 4 Full Freedom The commitment to imitating Christ is the triumph of God’s love that takes hold of a man and demands of him every possible effort in the
Day 3 The Spiritual Combat St. Paul’s words (especially in the Letters to the Romans and Galatians) enable us to know and feel vividly the strength of the tension and
Day 2 God Is Faithful Christianity is grace, it is the wonder of a God who is not satisfied with creating the world and man, but puts himself on the
We now need to profit from the grace received, by putting it into practice in resolutions and guidelines for action. — St. John Paul II, Novo Millennio, 3 Jesus
Alex Kucera has lived in Atlanta, GA, for the last 46 years. He is one of 9 children, married to his wife Karmen, and has 3 girls, one grandson, and a granddaughter on the way. Alex joined Regnum Christi in 2007. Out of the gate, he joined the Helping Hands Medical Missions apostolate and is still participating today with the Ghana Friendship Mission.
In 2009, Alex was asked to be the Atlanta RC Renewal Coordinator for the Atlanta Locality to help the RC members with the RC renewal process. Alex became a Group Leader in 2012 for four of the Atlanta Men’s Section Teams and continues today. Running in parallel, in 2013, Alex became a Team Leader and shepherded a large team of good men.
Alex was honored to be the Atlanta Mission Coordinator between 2010 to 2022 (12 years), coordinating 5-8 Holy Week Mission teams across Georgia. He also created and coordinated missions at a parish in Athens, GA, for 9 years. Alex continues to coordinate Holy Week Missions, Advent Missions, and Monthly missions at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Cumming, GA.
From 2016 to 2022, Alex also served as the Men’s Section Assistant in Atlanta. He loved working with the Men’s Section Director, the Legionaries, Consecrated, and Women’s Section leadership teams.
Alex is exceptionally grateful to the Legionaries, Consecrated, and many RC members who he’s journeyed shoulder to shoulder, growing his relationship with Christ and others along the way. He knows that there is only one way, that’s Christ’s Way, with others!
