We are a spiritual family seeking to give glory to God and make the Kingdom of Christ present in the hearts of all people and in society, by our sanctification in the state and condition of life to which God has called us, and by personal and communal apostolic action.
Regnum Christi
The Legionaries of Christ, through their religious consecration, offer the testimony of their dedication to Jesus Christ and their full availability for the fulfillment of the common mission. As priests, they make Christ the Priest and the Good Shepherd present through preaching, the administration of the sacraments, and spiritual guidance. In communion with everyone, they collaborate in the integral formation, leadership, and apostolic outreach of the faithful associated with Regnum Christi.
The Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, from their feminine identity, offer the gift of their lay consecration through their total and exclusive dedication to the love of Christ, being signs of the Kingdom in the midst of temporal realities. They promote and safeguard communion, reach out to people in the concrete circumstances of their lives, and undertake actions that most contribute to the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.
The Consecrated Lay Men of Regnum Christi offer the gift of their lay and secular consecration through prophetic witness—being in the world but not of the world—by evangelizing temporal realities. They do so through their availability, charity, professional competence, and joy in serving Regnum Christi, the Church, and others. They also foster fraternal communion among all and dedicate themselves to prayer.
— cf. Estatutos del Regnum Christi, n° 5.
Other faithful can individually associate themselves with Regnum Christi:
- lay faithful who do not assume the evangelical counsels by a sacred bond, and who personally embrace a vocation to fully live their baptismal commitments in the midst of temporal realities according to the spirit and mission that inspires this Federation;
- diocesan priests, deacons and seminarians.
— cf. Estatutos del Regnum Christi, n° 2.
Christ is the Kingdom in person, and He invites us to the mission of making Him present here and now in the hearts of men and in society: to be His apostles
What is the charism of Regnum Christi?
Regnum Christi is a gift that God gives to the Church. It originates from the initiative of Jesus Christ, who calls you, along with others, to live a mission: to make the Kingdom present by making Him present Himself, as He comes to meet us, reveals the love of His heart, forms us as apostles, sends us, and accompanies us to collaborate with Him in evangelization so that He may reign in the hearts of men and in society.
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From the charism flow a spirituality and a way of living the mission that are concretized in the life of the member through five characteristic elements: team life, spiritual life, formation, accompaniment, and apostolate, with a strong emphasis on the encounter with Christ and the distinctive discernment method in Regnum Christi.
Team life
Spiritual life
Formation
Accompaniment
Apostolate
Making present the Kingdom of Christ that…
- Christ, the One who is sent, the Apostle of the Father, goes out to encounter humanity in order to make his Kingdom present in our hearts and in the world.
Christ, Love Incarnate, is the presence of the Kingdom in this world. He is the living encounter between God and man. - In his hidden life, he encounters people in daily life, in the exercise of a trade, in daily interactions with others, in his obedience to his parents and in obedience to his Father.
- In his public life he is present wherever the people of his time are to be found: on the roads, at wedding feasts, at the lake shore, at the tax office, beside a well.
- He also encounters people in their deepest experiences: in the death of a loved one, in the joy and beauty of friendship, in celebrations, in apostolic fatigue, in the darkness of trials, in physical suffering, in sickness and pain,29 in rejected love.
- In a very special way, he is the encounter of God and human persons in prayer, where he presents them to his Father.
- All these realities touched by Christ become realities of the Kingdom: the Kingdom he comes to announce and make present; the Kingdom that overcomes the kingdom of darkness through the power of love.
- By revealing the love that burns in his Heart, Christ invites us to open our own heart to receive it. He invites us to love him and what he loves. He invites us to let him love in us.
- From the beginning of his preaching until his death on the cross, and then in the Resurrection, Christ lets us see the immense love he has for his Father, from whom he came and to whom he is returning. A father from whom he receives, and to whom he commends, the Spirit. A close, affectionate father he calls “Abba.” A father who is also our Father.
- He loves Mary as a son loves his mother. He involves her in his entire life, in his redeeming work, and, at the foot of the cross, he entrusts her as Mother to the early Church.
- He passionately loves all people as his brothers and sisters. He loves them to the extreme, to the point of giving his life. Just as he is loved by the Father, so he loves them.
- Christ loves with a personal love, capable of establishing deep relationships. His love for his friends is faithful; for children, it is tender; for those who suffer, compassionate; and for those who rejoice, joyful.
- His is a love that thirsts to be loved and is not ashamed to admit it. He says it beside the well and he says it on the cross. It’s a love that touches others and lets itself be touched. It becomes vulnerable.
- Christ’s love is one that forgives, heals, and comforts. It’s a love that lifts people up and restores their dignity. It’s a love that raises up, that gives life in abundance. A love that definitively conquers sin and death, a love that makes all things new.
- His is a priestly love offered for all people, his brothers and sisters, for friend as for enemy; for those who recognize and welcome him as for those who deny and reject him.
- Christ’s is a love that burns to make his Father’s Kingdom present and teaches us to ask for this in the Lord’s Prayer.
- With every word and every gesture he reveals his love for me.
- The love that burns in the heart of Christ is a love that gathers others together in communion, inviting them to remain in him. It’s a love that makes us brothers and sisters in him.
- At the beginning of his public life, Jesus calls twelve men. He goes out to meet each one wherever they live their day-today life. He calls them to be with him, he reveals to them the mysteries of the Kingdom and the love that burns in his heart. He gathers them together into a community and makes them sharers in his mission. Gathering disciples to form a community for the mission with them is not something optional; it is the founding of the Kingdom. By bringing them together, Christ reveals a greater mystery, the mystery of the restored communion that is the Church, his Body, and the beginning of his Kingdom on earth. They are united around him and united in the mission.
- In community, they receive the gift of the Eucharist from the Lord at the Last Supper. The community of the twelve, gathered together in prayer with Mary, receive the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost. In community, they meet the Risen Lord, both in the Upper Room and on the lakeshore.
- The community that follows the Lord is not limited to the twelve. How many pious and brave women accompany him on his journeys, especially the most painful one: the one that leads him to Calvary. There are also families drawn to him, such as the family from Bethany. The 72 disciples, sent out on a mission, return to join Jesus and share the joy of their experience of proclaiming the Kingdom. The community Jesus brought together gets shaped by daily contact with him, by sharing life with their Master and Lord. They accompany him on the roads he travels, to the homes he visits, in the boat that so often crosses the Lake of Galilee. They learn from him how to love each other and to pray together to the Father.
- The apostles later on will do what their Teacher did. Sent all over the world to preach the Kingdom, they will form communities of believers who share the Eucharistic Bread, share their food and their possessions, and look after the needs of all. Together they praise the Lord and with their lives they proclaim him.
- The formation of the apostles occurs in intimate contact with Jesus Christ. We can say that the life they share with him is where he gradually shapes them to be like himself: he teaches them to see, think, feel, act, and choose as he does. In the way he interacts with them, he reveals to them the love of his Heart and they gradually learn to love what he loves.
- Jesus gives himself to everyone but dedicates a significant amount of his time to the special formation of some, drawing them intimately into his mystery and making them sharers in his mission.
- In everyday life he leads them to discover God’s presence and his plan for all their brothers and sisters—a plan of redeeming love, a plan of encountering people to restore their dignity as beloved sons and daughters of the Father. He announces the Kingdom to them, its characteristics and its demands, and calls them to conversion. He teaches them to recognize his presence or absence in different realities:
- the presence of the Kingdom in the faith of so many people (the woman with a hemorrhage, the centurion, the Canaanite woman), in generosity (the widow at the Temple), in repentance and desire for conversion (Zacchaeus), in thirsting and searching (the Samaritan woman, Nicodemus), etc.
- the absence of the Kingdom in hypocrisy and lack of truth (some customs of the Pharisees), in the lack of forgiveness, in violence, in betrayal, and in lack of hope.
- He explains to them the meaning of the parables and gradually leads them into the mysteries he has come to reveal. He teaches them that there are demons that are cast out only with prayer and sacrifice.
- He teaches them what it means to be King according to the criteria of his Father’s Kingdom. With his own life, he shows them that true leadership consists in bearing witness to the truth, in serving our brothers and sisters, in submitting freely to the Father’s will, and in giving one’s life out of love.
- He forms them to live in the circumstances of the world like leaven in wheat flour, but without submitting to the criteria of the world: his Kingdom is not of this world.
- The sending out on mission springs from the Trinity itself: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” The Father sends Christ to redeem humanity.
- Christ, in turn, sends his disciples: “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” They share in Christ’s redemptive mission: He sends them to “proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”
- The missionary mandate is given at his Ascension, but Christ also sends them on mission during his public ministry: to heal, to drive out demons, to feed the crowds, to prepare the Passover supper.
- He sends them with very clear instructions: no money bag, sack or sandals; announce peace when they enter a house, stay there, and accept whatever they offer to eat and drink.
- When they return from their mission, he advises them to rejoice not because the demons are subject to them, but because their names are written in heaven.
- Jesus goes out to encounter people and walks with them, both on the exterior journeys between one village and another, and on their interior journeys.
- The conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well shows us how, throughout the conversation, he is accompanying her in an interior process.
- Jesus walks with the discouraged disciples on the journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and also on a journey through the Scriptures, explaining to them how they foretold what had happened.
- He accompanies Peter on his journey of configuration with him [being shaped into likeness with Christ]. He calls him, gets into his boat, invites him to “put out into deep water.” To Peter, Jesus gradually reveals his own identity as the Son of God, and the mystery of redemption: “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father;” “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.”
- Along with that, he also gradually reveals Peter’s own identity and mission.
- At the Ascension, he promises to always accompany them: “I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
- At the Last Supper he promises to send his Spirit—the great companion— who will teach them everything and remind them of all that he told them. They receive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and he assists them in their evangelizing activity throughout the Acts of the Apostles.