God May Be Calling You.
Are You Ready to Listen?
Take the 7-Day Challenge, One Step at a Time
God May Be Calling You.
Are You Ready to Listen?
Take the 7-Day Challenge, One Step at a Time
Join the 7 Day Discernment Challenge: a free, guided journey designed to help you deepen your prayer life, recognize God’s voice, and take meaningful steps toward discovering His unique call for your life.
This is My Why
Tools
We each have a vocation. We are all called to change the world in some way by living our God-given identity and purpose. Finding your vocation involves a profound commitment to following God’s unique call for you, and it requires intentional effort and prayer to understand.
The process of discovering God’s will for our lives is known as vocational discernment.
Upcoming Events
Discernment Process
Tool Kit Discernment Groups
Take a step into the discernment journey with other young men with a Christ-centered, Scripture-based weekly online group that offers discernment tools. Six sessions, from Mid-October to mid-November.
Contact: Fr Joseph jbrickner@legionaries.org
Aspirancy Program
If a young man is open to the possibility of entering the candidacy program during the upcoming summer, he should consider joining the Legionaries of Christ Aspirancy Program. The Aspirancy is a time to deepen in the understanding of the charism of the congregation and Regnum Christi alongside other aspirants.
Who is the aspirancy program for?
- High school seniors (with parental permission)
- University seniors and select undergraduates
- Men working off financial debt
- Men wanting to experience the Legion and Regnum Christi charism, community, and apostolate
- Men needing time and guidance to strengthen certain habits and form virtues
- Men taking firm initial steps before Candidacy
Hear from participants in the Aspirancy Program
Meet Fr. Joseph: Director of the Aspirancy Program
"God is forming me into the man He's calling me to be."
"I felt like I was lacking in a sense that I had as a missionary."
"I know that I am not alone in walking my path towards God."
Candidacy Program
The candidacy program is a two-month summer program designed to discern whether God seems to be calling a man to be a priest with the Legionaries of Christ. Because community is so essential in the life of a Legionary of Christ, the candidates live together during this program in Cheshire, Connecticut.
They live like a Legionary: following a disciplined lifestyle and schedule, engaging in community life, attending courses, sports, and apostolate, and strengthening their prayer and sacramental life as a band of brothers seeking to follow God’s will.
Steps to enter the candidacy program:
- Request a Candidacy application (If the man and the Vocation Director agree)
- In-depth interview (if not completed earlier)
- Provide letters of recommendation
- Undergo criminal background check
- Complete medical exams
- If a call to enter the novitiate is discerned, a pre-seminary psychological exam and interview with the director of novices will be required.
Hear from participants in the 2025 Candidacy program
2023 Candidates' final week: silent retreat and reception of the cassock
Legionaries of Christ Novitiate
The novitiate is traditionally known among Legionaries as “the University where you study Christ.” It is a period marked by a particular separation from the world as the novice has limited access to internet and no cellphone or use of social media. This atmosphere allows him to hear the Lord speaking within his soul in order to discern his vocation as well as lay the foundation of a solid interior life, without which his future apostolate will be fruitless. The novice is systematically instructed in the spirituality of the Legionaries of Christ, the history of the Legion, human formation, and the theology of the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. After two years, the novitiate ends with the first profession of vows which he makes for 2 years.
2025 Ordination to the Priesthood
On Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 10:00 am (Rome local time), 23 Legionaries of Christ were ordained to the priesthood. The future priests come from Mexico, Brazil, France, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, the United States, El Salvador, Germany and Venezuela.
The ceremony which took place in the Papal Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls (Rome) was celebrated by Mgr Pedro Pablo Elizondo, L.C.
Fr. Joseph Brickner
Vocation Director
Texas, Louisiana
Fr. José Helio Cantú
Vocation Coordinator
Yonkers, NY
Fr. Ronald Conklin
Vocation Coordinator
Indiana
Fr. Martin Connor
National Vocation Director
New England, Detroit
Fr. Vito Crincoli
Vocation Coordinator
Washington DC
Fr. Robert DeCesare
Vocation Director
Heartland, Chicago
Fr. Simon Devereux
Vocation Coordinator
San Jose
Fr. Lorenzo Gomez
Vocation Coordinator
Los Angeles
Fr. Christopher Gronotte
Admissions
Sacred Heart Apostolic School
Fr. Juan José Hernández
Vocation Coordinator
Duke University
Fr. John Klein
College Chaplain
GA Tech, UGA
Fr. Jeremy Lambert
YA RC Section Director
New Orleans
Fr. Kenneth LeBlanc
Vocation Coordinator
Western Canada
Fr. Luis Lorenzo
YA RC Section Director
Manila
Fr. Fergal Ó Dúill
Vocation Coordinator
Dallas
Fr. Benjamin O’Loughlin
YA RC Section Director
Philadelphia
Fr. Andres Orellana
YA RC Section Director
San Jose, CA
Fr. David Parker
Vocation Coordinator
Houston
Fr. Vinh Pham
vocation director
Ohio & Northern California
Fr. Ryan Richardson
College Chaplain
Benedictine College
Fr. Nicholas Sheehy
College Chaplain
North Carolina State
Fr. Paul Silva
Admissions
Sacred Heart Apostolic School
Fr. Jason Smith
Vocation Coordinator
Detroit
Fr. Markus Stehmer
vocation director
Mid Atlantic Area
Fr. Brett Taira
College Chaplain
Benedictine College
Fr. Bernardo Torres
Vocation Coordinator
Cheshire, CT
Fr. John VanDorpe
Vocation Director
Southeast, Atlanta
Fr. Joshua West
College Chaplain
North Carolina State
Fr. Adam Zettel
Vocation Coordinator
Eastern Canada
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