A Possibility of Kingdom, a Space for Mission
Understanding the Human Person & Regnum Christi’s Style of Evangelization
RC Formators' Webinar Series: Year One Resources
Presented in Fall 2024-Spring 2025
To introduce the basics of human and Christian anthropology exploring who the human person is from a theological and philosophical perspective, to introduce the foundations of the Regnum Christi apostolic principles as guidelines for action in our evangelizing work that flow directly from our charism and to specifically introduce and interiorize three of the principles of apostolic action – person to person, accompaniment and adapting to time and place.
Audience: RC Formators (section directors, group leaders, team leaders, section leadership team members or AFIRE teams, RC Chaplains, CRCs working in sections, and spiritual directors) serving in the North American Territory.
Presenters:
Patricia Camarero: Originally from Mexico City, Patricia was consecrated in Regnum Christi on August 15, 1985. She has a doctorate in Philosophy and centered her doctoral work on human love in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Edith Stein. She currently resides in the Houston community and assists with the Regnum Christi Women’s sections there and serves on the RC Lay Member Support Team as the RC Formation and RC Formators’ Specialist.
Maria Knuth: Originally from northern Minnesota, Maria was consecrated in Regnum Christi on August 22, 2000. She has her master’s in religious and pastoral sciences, and has spent most of her pastoral ministry in working with ECYD and Regnum Christi leadership. She currently resides in the New Orleans community assisting with the women’s sections, young adult section, and ECYD sections of New Orleans and North Shore and works as the Director of the Area of RC Lay Member Support for the Mission Support Team.
Session 1: What is a Human?
What it means to be a human person
Theological Dimension: Created in the image & likeness of God
Christ the Apostle/Leader and his style of leadership
Session 2: Created, Fallen, Redeemed
Theological Dimension: fallen (wounded by sin) and redeemed
What is apostolate? What are the principles of Apostolic action?
Session 3: We are God’s Children Now - 1 Jn 3:2
We are Children of God
How are you called to reach out?
Regnum Christi’s unique evangelizing style – introducing the RC principles of apostolic action
Session 4: A Spiritualized Body, an Embodied Spirit
Philosophical Dimension: Complexity in a Unity (Substantial Unity of Body and Soul) and introduce three dimensions
Principle: Person to Person
Session 5: Open to the “Other” and “others”: Relational
Relational dimension of the human person
Principle: Adaptation to Time and Place
Session 6: Open to the “Other”: Transcendent
The transcendent dimension of the human person
Principle: Accompaniment
