We’re excited to welcome our first married couple to the podcast! Colin and Jean are long-time RC members who’ve combined their psychological and military backgrounds to serve a joint mission and passion: a ministry to support and strengthen marriages!

Jean uses her gifts in counseling and Colin uses his strategic strengths to come up with a tool to help serve married couples, as there is a clear attack on marriage in our modern world. The online course they offer, Holy Union Blueprint, helps couples cultivate a deeper connection with God and their spouse.

The recent Regnum Christi General Convention highlighted the importance of pastoral work with married couples in all its stages: “Strengthen pastoral care for marriage and the family, as it is the basic nucleus of society and the natural place where the person discovers themself, develops, and learns to love. We want the structure of Regnum Christi to respond better to the needs of marriages and to elaborate formative itineraries that accompany the vocation to love along all its stages and situations: dating, marriage prep, marriage, families with children, old age, and widowhood, as well as separation or divorce when it unfortunately occurs. We want to form and project true apostles of marriage and the family.”-Communique n. 27

Thank you, Jean and Colin, for responding to the need with your time and talent!

Links mentioned in the show:

Holy UNION Blueprint course: https://www.holyunionconnect.com/course

Jean’s marriage reflections: https://www.holyunionconnect.com/dailyreflections.

Jean’s article “Discerning God’s Voice Through Emotional Awareness”: https://www.thecatholicbest.com/blog/discerning-god%E2%80%99s-voice-through-emotional-awareness-and-regulation

Boys and girls camps mentioned: Arcatheos: https://www.arcatheos.com/ and Captivenia: https://captivenia.com/

Check them out on Instagram @ holyunionconnect.

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We are honored to sit down with Helen Yalbir today as she shares her experience attending the RC General Convention in Rome! Before diving into what it was like at the Convention, Helen shared a little about how she first met Regnum Christi and felt called to consecrated life. We chat about everything from her work as a spiritual director and serving young adults in Dallas, Texas, to her unique Turkish culture and all the many ways God has prepared her for this moment.

In the hope-filled conversation, Helen describes the family spirit and profound listening, prayer, and discernment that imbues her experience of the RC General Convention. She does a great job of explaining the structure, process, and some key takeaways. We highly encourage you to check out the links below, especially the communiqué with the conclusions—a worthwhile and powerful read!

May we all live this spirit of prayerful discernment as we ponder what God desires for each one of us in our own countries, localities, and families. One particular line from the communiqué stuck out as we continue to journey, listening to the stories of RC members around the world:

“This is the time of God’s grace for us, our kairós; it is time for the spiritual joy of the here and now, the moment to express redeeming love to all. We can regard the past without nostalgia or fear as it is the memory of God with us. We can look to the future with theological hope and without fantasies of earthly greatness.”

Truly, this is a time of God’s grace, a time for each of us to step out bravely in mission, a time for us to individually respond to what God may be asking us for this moment, for such a time as this.

To see photos and read day-by-day summaries of the RC General Convention: https://www.regnumchristi.com/en/the-2024-general-convention/

RC General Convention Communiqué: https://www.regnumchristi.com/en/regnum-christi-general-convention-communicates-apostolic-priorities-for-the-next-six-years/

Some apps Helen mentions (which RC members in Dallas created):

https://seekdirection.app/#/home

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.holyhabits&hl=en_US&pli=1

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This week, around the table on the For This Moment Podcast, we are blessed to have Jaella Mac Au join us. She is a young woman from Atlanta, an RC member, and currently a Eucharistic Perpetual Pilgrim journeying the 2,200 miles from California to Indianapolis, Indiana, for the National Eucharistic Congress. Jaella gives us a bit of her backstory about how she went from someone who didn’t really have God in her life to becoming His missionary and apostle of the Kingdom.

While you listen, you can consider all the small and big ways God the Good Shepherd has allowed different moments and chapters of your story to unfold to prepare you for your own personal mission. Where do you hear His call at this moment?

We invite all the listeners to pray for a deep Eucharistic Revival in the hearts of all Catholics as the longest Eucharistic Procession in history takes place across the United States. The beauty of the Mystical Body is that we, too, can be on the journey every time we receive His Body and Blood present in the Eucharist.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”-Isaiah 6:8.

Here is the Google form if you’d like to send intentions or follow Jaella’s journey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScofOhvc38yB65-o6F-ac6TCpawrUw0F8zrKj_cpPmf4PipAA/viewform

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: https://www.eucharisticpilgrimage.org/?_gl=1*t7y4y7*_gcl_au*MTQyODIyOTIzOC4xNzE1OTUzMDEx*_ga*NDM1MzE2NDAwLjE3MTU5NTMwMDk.*_ga_EPSKFT8FRQ*MTcxNTk1MzE0NS4xLjEuMTcxNTk1MzU2OS4wLjAuMA..

How to join Regnum Christi at the Eucharistic Congress: https://www.regnumchristi.com/en/join-regnum-christi-at-the-national-eucharistic-congress/