The Dedication of the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior

Regnum Christi Spirituality Center Uncle Eddy

Dear Jake,

Please, I beg of you, take a few moments out of your busy schedule today and go say a prayer for your poor, persecuted uncle in the Mother Church of the whole world.  If God has been so good as to allow you to spend this semester in Rome, the least you can do for an imprisoned uncle is afford me this small consolation.  It was there, in that ancient and magnificent building, in that prayer captured in stone, the cathedral of Rome, the first of the public basilicas erected after the first three centuries of the Church’s existence – it was there that I first began to fall in love with Catholicism, and there that I spent my afternoons during that fateful year when God called me to the mission I am still engaged in now.  I know, of course, that we do not need beautiful buildings in order to worship God – but they certainly can help!  And just thinking of the millions of pilgrims that have passed through the doors of that basilica – those front doors, those huge bronze doors that the Christians removed from the Roman Senate at Constantine’s behest, as if to mark the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the Christian age – just the thought of all those pilgrims makes my eyes water.  We have been given such a great gift, my dear nephew, to have inherited the one true faith.  I do hope you are taking time enough to soak your soul in the many monuments to that faith that decorate the Eternal City.  Don’t waste all your free time gamboling around the bars, as so many American college students do on their semester overseas.  Open the eyes of your heart to the beauties of this Church, which God supplies to carry us into his heavenly embrace.  Fall in love with the Church, and let that love fill you with enthusiasm for the eternal Kingdom…

Well, I am getting a bit carried away.  Do forgive me – a passing spasm of self-pity and egoism.  Ugh.  Count on my prayers.

God bless,

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!