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For This MomentSavanna Plunkett's Story: Hope in God's PlanWe are continuing as pilgrims of hope in the Jubilee Year, now enjoying the graces of Pentecost! Last episode, we were able to listen to Betti’s story as she prepared for her first vows. In today's episode, we'll sit around the table with Savanna, a young woman who is just beginning her vocational discernment with the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi. It’s beautiful to hear the fresh love she has for the Lord and how she sees God’s fidelity in her own life, filled with many twists and turns. He is faithful, and that is a great...2025-06-1358 minFor This MomentBetti Duda's Story: Hope in God's CallHappy Easter, dear listeners! After a bit of a stint, Laura and Megan are back with testimonies of hope to inspire you in this Jubilee Year as Pilgrims of Hope! This week they are joined by a young woman, Betti Duda, who is in her candidacy before making first vows with the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi. She shares how she had a conversion on the night St. John Paul II died, and how that night was the catalyst of her vocational journey. To quote the last homily of our late Pope Francis: “And so we...2025-05-1547 minFor This MomentJanet Lee's Story: Hopeful Witness of God's GloryThe first guest for Season 2’s hope-tellers is long-time RC member Janet Lees. From her Ohio home, this wife, mother, and grandmother has found deep hope in the mission of listening and witnessing to others and getting a front-row seat to God’s glory. Janet shares how her love for the Lord and our spiritual family, her training in spiritual direction, and St. Ignatius’ 19th annotation of his Spiritual Exercises have led her to marvel at God’s glory. We hope today’s episode blesses you, as it blessed us! 2025-04-0359 minFor This MomentWelcome to Season 2: Hope-tellingWelcome to Season 2 on the For This Moment Podcast! Megan and Laura take time during this episode to reflect on the past year of the podcast and the blessings they’ve received, as well as launch the new season. This year will be focused on story-telling or, as Pope Francis says, “hope-telling”. The podcast will now focus on RC women with stories of hope to nourish you on your pilgrim journey this Jubilee Year. On January 25, 2025, Pope Francis encouraged us to tell stories filled with hope that nourish the soul. “Telling hope,” he said “means allowing people to hope again...2025-03-2032 minFor This MomentHolly Schapker & Emily Berminngham: Way of BeautyThis week we have a unique episode! Our first time interviewing two women who share a similar passion: the way of beauty. Megan and Laura's sister, Emily, and Holly join us around the table to discuss how they find God's love through beauty. They are both artists, and describe how their love for art's creative process ultimately points them to God. Both share how this love for art has helped them both put on and attend the Regnum Christi Artist retreat in Cincinnati, Ohio. "The Church needs art and artists, for beauty is the promise of happiness...2025-02-2059 minFor This MomentElsa Hoffman's Story: He always loves moreAround the table, we are delighted to invite our guest, Elsa Hoffman, whose knack for storytelling illustrates God's presence with her throughout her life. She shares how she first came to find Jesus as her best friend, and how, in the many different apostolates she's been a part of, her main desire is for others to encounter Him and be set on fire to give His love to others. Enjoy this week's episode and, if God inspires, maybe share with a friend who needs light and encouragement! 2025-02-071h 09For This MomentKathleen Conklin's Story: First FruitsAn exciting new apostolate, First Fruits, is launching and Kathleen Conklin is here to share with us all about it! Her story of being impacted as a young child in a faith-filled family, her deep desire as a wife and mother to pass that faith on, and her adventures of moving cross-country and founding K4J (Kids for Jesus) all contribute to how God has prepared her for such a time as this to help start a new apostolate for young families. Enjoy hearing how God prepared her and how you can learn more to form yourself, your spouse...2025-01-2346 minFor This MomentElizabeth Matthews' Story: Count it all joyMegan and Laura are kicking off the new year of 2025 with an interview with their mom, Elizabeth (Beth) Matthews. It truly was girl time around the table as they listened to Beth share her story of the tender faith in her childhood: from nightly rosary to the mountains of Peru. Beth shares how her desire to know the faith and pass it on to others grew stronger each year. Regnum Christi was an answered prayer and has been, for nearly 30 years, an instrument of grace in her life. This episode includes a bonus Advent by Candlelight talk Laura and...2025-01-091h 14For This MomentEmily Roman's Story: Everything is graceHappy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! Around the table today we have Emily Roman, a Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi, sharing her story of life and love with Jesus, building His Kingdom! As she says, “we ended up talking a little bit about everything!”, which sparked the title and also the motto of her beloved Pinecrest Academy: Everything is grace! We hope you all enjoy the laughter, joy, and sisterhood! She is a woman in love with Jesus, her King, and is teaching, serving, and singing with all her heart to make Him known and loved.
Check...2024-12-1257 minFor This MomentAnna Hudson's Story: The Ministry That Found MeLaura and Megan enjoyed meeting a new friend this week on the podcast. Anna shares her beautiful “heart story” from her missionary experiences in India and other foreign countries, meeting Regnum Christi and now serving in the ministry of spiritual direction. She shares how both types of contemplative and missionary experiences are all wonderful adventures with God, who loves us so much.
The summary of her experiences is found in Isaiah 43:1 “Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you, you are mine.” This unshakable trust now leads her to live life with an abando...2024-11-1454 minFor This MomentAmber Starr’s Story: Further up and further inThis week, Megan invites one of her closest mom friends and Regnum Christi sister, Amber Starr. Amber shares with us her story–from when she joined ECYD as a young girl to how her relationship went from knowing about God to loving Him and following Him through the twists and turns of life. Similar to climbing a mountain, Amber shares how the landscape can seem the same, but as you deepen into the heart of Jesus, you gain a better perspective.
Megan quotes C.S. Lewis’ Last Battle to describe this experience: "This is the land I have...2024-10-3153 minFor This MomentMaddie Nagel's Story: God's Perfect TimingAfter a short stint away, Megan and Laura are back in the swing of things with our lovely guest, Maddie Nagel! Maddie joins us from Atlanta, Georgia where she is serving as High School Campus Minister.
Maddie shares with us how by listening to God’s voice and following His lead through the circumstances of her life she was brought, in His perfect timing, back to the very place she had given two years as a Regnum Christi Missionary.
We enjoy swapping stories about how God works through the circumstances in our lives, ever leading us o...2024-10-1753 minFor This MomentMary Schwarz's Story: Meeting those at the crossroadsToday we are around the table with Mary Schwarz who has “traveled the farthest” of all our guests-joining us from the Philippines!
Mary shares how she was first drawn to God through the existential ache for Him through beauty, how in college she found she could have a personal relationship with Him, and how He drew her to Himself through her vocation as a Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi.
Enjoy listening to Mary’s new and exciting apostolate of teaching the Alpha Course to law students at Manila’s De La Salle University and how she has g...2024-09-1953 minFor This MomentGenesis Torrens' Story: An Apostle on FireFor 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 Co...2024-09-0549 minFor This MomentAngela Miles & Sarah Buckbee's Story: Everything gives Him gloryThis 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 u...2024-08-221h 02For This MomentJennifer No's Story: A Family of Missionary ApostlesJennifer 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...2024-08-0856 minFor This MomentCarrie O'Connor's Story: A Eucharistic HomecomingWe have a special episode on the podcast after a grace-filled 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis! This week Laura is joined by her consecrated sister, Carrie O’Connor. Carrie has recently returned to the USA after nearly a decade of serving in Chile and as she attended the Congress, she felt Jesus whisper to her heart: “Welcome Home!” A Eucharistic homecoming!
Enjoy listening as they share some experiences: from the life-affirming encounters at the RC booth, the Eucharistic adoration with over 60,000 people, and the Eucharistic procession with leading the way with 1,000 other religious and consecrated. The Euchari...2024-07-2544 minFor This MomentEileen Wieck’s Story: Finding our voice in the BelovedIt’s our 10th episode! We had the grace to interview Eileen Wick, a spiritual director, public speaker, retreat director, and, most importantly, as she says, beloved daughter of God. Eileen, originally from Edmonton, Canada, has lived in California for over 20 years with her husband and six children.
Eileen's story begins with a profound sense of God's presence from a young age. She recalls a powerful spiritual encounter at the age of six, which instilled a deep sense of belonging and belovedness in her. This early faith was nurtured through her involvement with Regnum Christi during her te...2024-07-1149 minFor This MomentColin and Jean Mackenzie’s Story: Rebuilding the Domestic Church 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 rec...2024-06-2747 minFor This MomentHelen Yalbir's Story: RC General Convention as discerning together in the heart of the ChurchWe 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, a...2024-06-1354 minFor This MomentJaella Mac Au's Story: On the Pilgrim Journey with GodThis 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 She...2024-05-3042 minFor This MomentJulia O'Connor's Story: In the Garden of the KingToday's episode is with our lovely guest, Julia O'Connor! She is a wife, mother, and current Louisville RC Women's Section Director. In our conversation, Julia opens her heart to share all the places of intimacy in her relationship with Our Lord and how He invites her to collaborate in His mission.She beautifully describes how the image of being and working in God's garden has been woven throughout her life's story, vocation, and current mission. Her testimony reminds us that our yes in the present moment is always a response to the love of God poured into us...2024-05-1649 minFor This MomentLisa Small's Story: Serving the whole spiritual familyToday's guest on the For This Moment Podcast is Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi Lisa Small from New Zealand. She shares her story of a deep love for Jesus in the Eucharist which led her to follow Him in the vocation to consecrated life and leaving everything, even her country, to follow His lead.
Her profound love for the spiritual family of Regnum Christi and her own experiences of suffering have not only shaped her but also led her to a personal mission of serving the whole spiritual family, accompanying them with unwavering love, prayer, and discernment.
...2024-05-0240 minFor This MomentValerie Doran's Story: Building the Kingdom one yes at a timeThis week's guest on the For This Moment Podcast is wife and mother Valerie Doran from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She shares her story of discovering a deep and personal relationship with Jesus in adoration and how he led her to Regnum Christi. She opens her heart about offering Jesus her littleness and how, by being docile to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, she was given the grace to found Captivenia Girls' Camp.
Her "yes" to this mission has set a chain reaction for others to step out boldly to serve through their gifts...2024-04-1840 minFor This MomentKathleen Nichols' Story: Building the Kingdom in the Holy LandHappy Easter! Today's guest on the For This Moment Podcast is a Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi, Kathleen Nichols. She shares a bit of her story of faith and how God has blessed her with the ministry to serve and love in the Holy Land. We hope that this episode blesses you this Easter Season!
"Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: Simon Peter, Thomas, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them...2024-04-0435 minFor This MomentMary Peach's Story: The Understanding Heart of GodToday's guest on the For This Moment Podcast is Mary Peach from Cincinnati. She shares how, as a young girl arriving from Ethiopia, she discovered God's understanding love and how she has been able to extend that love in her daily life, especially as a Catholic school teacher.
"Lord, you have probed me; you know me: you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. You sift through my travels and my rest; with all my ways, you are familiar. Even before a word is on my tongue, Lord, you know it all."...2024-03-2140 minFor This MomentFor This MomentTwo sisters, Laura Matthews, a Consecrated Woman of Regnum Christi, and Megan Sternhagen, a lay member of Regnum Christi, launch the first episode of the For This Moment Podcast. They desire to create a space for women to connect and share their stories of the Kingdom, catching glimmers of God’s glory and marveling at His works, both big and small. If you’d like to share your story, please contact them at forthismomentpodcast@gmail.com.
For our light affliction, which is for this moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory-2 Corin...2024-03-0518 min