Regnum Christi Spirituality Center Uncle Eddy

Dear Stan,

Always good to hear from you, my faithful nephew, though your last note brought ominous tidings.  In your description of the recent successes of your campus activities you only mentioned numbers – so many students now attending the weekly meetings, so many students coming to the First Friday liturgy, so many students attended the workshop on faith and reason… On the one hand, it is necessary (I mean that) and praiseworthy to take stock of these objectives, measurable indicators of the relative success of your evangelization efforts.  But on the other hand, such indicators don’t tell everything. For example, it is theoretically possible to have high numbers attending your events, but few attendees deepening their commitment to Christ. I’m not saying that this is your case; I’m just saying that it could be your case. When we focus on exterior success to the detriment of real, lasting success (bringing as many people as possible closer to the Lord), we run the risk of disconnecting from God’s will and serving only our vain and vague sense of worldly accomplishment.  

Today’s saint has a great phrase in this regard.  He was one of those remarkable young men who even in his early years strove passionately to know and please God.  He dealt with youthful temptations so definitively that later in life he was sublimely free to give himself without reserve to his task of shepherding the important diocese of Worcester, England, a post he was forced into (he had no book learning and felt completely inadequate to the task) after having been a monk and then Abbot of a monastery in the same city.  He so effectively reformed the decadent morals of the citizenry, that when William the Conqueror had all the native English bishops deposed in favor of his Norman clergy (this was after his successful invasion of the Island in 1066), St Wulfsan was the sole English prelate to maintain his see. Towards the end of his life, the growth of his community of faithful forced him to tear down their ancient and dilapidated cathedral (it was made of wood), and erect a magnificent new structure, much larger and more elaborate.  He realized the necessity of this exterior work, but it pained him to see the old building razed. He remarked at the time, “The men of old, if they had not stately buildings, were themselves a sacrifice to God, whereas we pile up stones, and neglect souls.”

Well, in a sense you too are piling up stones – the stones of many apostolic initiatives and projects of evangelization on campus and off.  Keep on piling them up with energy and cunning, but don’t ever let yourself be rebuked for having neglected souls.

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!