For this week’s episode, Laura got to have the guest over in person! She and Megan had the opportunity to sit around the table with Genesis Torrens. Genesis is the current director of Youth Faith Formation at St. Brendan the Navigator Parish in Cumming, Georgia. There she has the grace to impact over a thousand young people and their families, giving back the same formation and love for Jesus that she received as a young girl through ECYD.

Genesis’ story began at a retreat in Arizona when, as a young 11 year old girl, she first met the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi. Since that first encounter with the Lord, she received a grace to be set on fire for him and to spend her life to make his Kingdom come.

The passage that came to mind while listening to Genesis was Matthew 5: 14-16. “A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”

Thank you, Genesis, for coming on this week to shine your joyful light!

This week’s episode is fun: two sisters interviewing two sisters! Sarah and Angie are new Regnum Christi members and share with us how, through the gift of the Eucharist and sacramental life, especially in their parish, they’ve been able to find hope, healing, and a desire to serve the Lord using their time and talents. This episode will especially strike a chord for women who are building up the domestic Church in the beautifully mundane day-to-day of motherhood. We speak about how this glorifies God and builds His Kingdom, like a mosaic in a cathedral. It may be unseen by us, but God sees it all.

We pray that mothers, especially those who sometimes feel hidden, will feel seen and encouraged in this episode. Each of our homes and families is a corner of the Kingdom that is also called to spread the love of God.

“And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.”- Matthew 6:4

We hope you enjoy this conversation and the love and bond between these sisters. We were inspired by their gratitude and how they champion one another! Thank you, Sarah and Angie!

Jennifer No, a loving wife and mother, shares with us how the Lord prepared her to say “yes” to be the Mission Youth and Family Director in Washington, D.C. alongside her husband. The beauty of her call lies behind how the Lord shaped her path: from a loving, nurturing Catholic family, to meeting Jesus more deeply in her adulthood through Spiritual Exercises, to launching the Walking with Purpose program in her parish, to being approached to consider the director role for Mission Youth. It is very clear how the Holy Spirit prepares us, one step at a time, for this moment we are called to!

As the RC Convention Communique 2024, n. 19 says, “An epochal change like the one we are experiencing requires a courageous and radical missionary choice. Small changes in our traditional pastoral work will be insufficient, and the mere implementation of means, plans, manuals, and programs will not be enough either. These all lead us to places we are already familiar with; to paraphrase St. John of the Cross, in order to arrive at where we do not yet know, we should walk where we do not know.”

Thank you, Jennifer, for sharing with us your courageous and radical missionary choice to go out to the homeless, door-to-door, March for Life, etc. in the heart of our country, and for forming the next generation of missionary apostles!

Show notes:

Walking with Purpose: https://walkingwithpurpose.com/

Mission Youth & Family Apostolate: https://www.regnumchristi.com/en/mission-youth/