April 21, 2026

DG-FRC 00077-2026

Dear Regnum Christi Members,

Happy Easter! May the joy of the Risen Jesus and the experience of his love remain in your hearts and lead you to proclaim him to others.

As we begin this new stage of the General Directive College, we want to reach out to you with a clear and shared conviction: we are called to foster the evangelizing mission of Regnum Christi. We assume this service in continuity with the path already traveled, and with the desire to accompany and strengthen what was outlined at the 2024 General Convention.

In the recent encounters with Pope Leo XIV, he told us that the charism that unites us is a gift from the Paraclete, offered to the Church so that the life within her may be revived and her mission may be energized, both within the Church herself and in society[1]. None of us is the owner of this gift, we are all its custodians and servants, called to give our lives so that it may continue to be fruitful in the Church and in the world[2]. It is in this shared awareness that we want to live our service of governance and the task given to us by the Statutes to ensure the safeguarding and promotion of the common charismatic heritage[3].

Easter invites to renew this apostolic zeal. The Risen Christ does not call his disciples to celebrate among themselves, but to go out: ” May you bring the joy of Jesus, who is risen and present in our midst, to all you meet,” Pope Leo XIV reminds us[4]. That is why we want to invite each one to renew and continue to form the heart of an apostle. We cannot waver in the face of the urgency of proclaiming the Gospel. We are called to sow the seed of the Kingdom, to go out to meet people, to transform our environment with apostolic action and the witness of mercy that we have received.

With that horizon in mind, we invite you to return again and again to the 2024 General Convention communiqué[5], which continues to be a reference for guiding our life and mission. In it we find concrete calls for this time: to look at the world with the eyes of Christ, to live an evangelical and apostolic discernment, to take on courageous and radical missionary choices, and to make the priorities that Regnum Christi has recognized for this six-year period our own.

We are all co-responsible for the mission and the charism. Each reality that makes up Regnum Christi has its own specific contribution to help us live the mission we share. We invite you to ensure that in each locality all its components (sections, educational work, apostolates, parishes, consecrated communities) continue to be true communities of apostles at the service of the mission[6].

We do not want to fail to mention and thank God for the graces received during the General Assemblies of Consecrated Women and Lay Consecrated Men, as well as at the General Chapter of the Legionaries of Christ. These have been moments of grace for the entire spiritual family. We thank all the members of Regnum Christi who accompanied them with their prayers and closeness.

We also express our sincere gratitude to Fr. John Connor, LC, for his generous service as a member of the General Directive College, and to Fr. Hernán Jiménez, LC, during the time he took on that responsibility.

We appreciate the self-giving of each one of you. Particularly those who were on missions this Holy Week and those who accompanied and supported them through prayer.

Let us ask Mary, Mother of Apostles, to accompany and sustain us in the mission.

The General Directive College of Regnum Christi