Regnum Christi Spirituality Center Uncle Eddy

Dear Ferdinand,

The excessive stress that you are always complaining about may have many different causes.  But whatever the cause, one spiritual exercise will surely diminish it: remembering heaven. Every Sunday we all go to Mass and dutifully profess our faith in eternal life and in a Kingdom that has no end, but the rest of the week we act as if this life were all there is.  We look for perfect peace and satisfaction in this passing, fragile, earthly existence. What a self-contradiction! Perhaps you should ask today’s saint for a special “stress-relief” intercession.

He was born of nobility in Ireland (it seems that everyone in ancient Ireland was born of nobility), and early on showed exceptional interpersonal and intellectual ability.  But he forsook the promising career ahead of him because he wanted to delve more deeply into the riches of sacred wisdom. He went off and erected a monastery in the wilderness, attracting a slew of disciples.  Much later, he returned home to share the graces he had received with his relatives, and there began a series of well-attested ecstasies and visions. On multiple occasions, his body would be rapt in cataleptic immobility (such that his companions more than once thought he had died and begun preparations for burial) while his soul engaged in instructive conversations with the angels.  Mostly, they would show him their view of the world, which consisted almost solely in the spiritual warfare raging between the devil and the Church, a warfare that, as they vividly showed him, took place in the conscience of every human being. They showed him the earth covered in a dark black haze (the power of the tempter, father of lies); they showed him huge fires blazing between earth and heaven (fires that purified or consumed souls who had forsaken their baptismal grace), and many other things as well.  Eyewitnesses related that when St Fursey described his visions, he would break out in a profuse sweat, even in the cold of winter. For this saint, the eternal trajectory of our earthly pilgrimage profoundly affected his daily life, providing a perspective that positively banished all vain and petty “stress.” I hope you can stir up your faith sufficiently to glimpse the same perspective, even if you aren’t graced with supernatural visions.

Your affectionate uncle, Eddy

Uncle Eddy Introduces the Saints

Navigating today’s world is tough and all of us could use a nudge in the right direction. Figuring out the right path to take at work, at college, or in social situations is not always easy. Looking to the lives of the saints can give us the insights we need.

Written by Fr. John Bartunek, LC, Uncle Eddy’s Saint of the Day is a fictional series of letters written by a man who has been imprisoned for the Catholic Faith. Using the saints of the day as examples, Uncle Eddy pens a daily letter with spiritual advice to his many nieces and nephews.

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Alex Kucera

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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!