“Consecrating myself to God in the Legion of Christ, dedicating my life to the service of the Church and the Pope,” was the response of the religious Ernesto Delgado Macías and Juan Ignacio Uzcanga García on Saturday, March 9th, in the chapel of the Novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Monterrey, during their religious profession ceremony.
The ceremony was presided over by Father Eduardo Robles-Gil, LC, General Director of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi. Concelebrating were Father Paul Lara, LC, Territorial Director of Monterrey, as well as Fathers Carlos Proal, Vicente Yanes, Felipe Rivas, Guillermo González, and Rafael Kizimia LLCC., along with several legionary priests serving their ministry in Monterrey and other cities.
Family and friends of the new religious, apostolics, novices, consecrated, and members of Regnum Christi attended the profession.
During the homily, Father Eduardo Robles-Gil, LC, said to those present:
Dear brothers, today we have gathered before God our Lord in the tabernacle, to be present at the celebration of their vows, and we have found in the Scriptures what God thinks about this ceremony, what God thinks about this act.
First of all, we encounter one of the prototypes of God’s call to the prophet Samuel: “that the fire of God had not yet gone out.”
And this is the first thing I would like to consider: God our Lord has in His heart that flame of love for all men, for each of us, and it does not go out. In these times we live in, He continues calling men and women to dedicate themselves to Him and to the Church.
We must dedicate ourselves to God in the Legion of Christ in service of the Church. This is what we celebrate today: that God’s love for His people, for His Church, and for each of us as individuals does not go out.
The Father Eduardo concluded by saying:
God wants us to be that flame of His love that does not go out, that is given unconditionally; and that is why Saint Paul says: whoever wants to deny himself, take up his cross, no one has greater value than the one who gives his life for his friends, and on the cross, Jesus Christ gives Himself up to the last drop of His blood for us. This is what we are celebrating today: the desire, the will of two of our brothers, a gift from God for the Legion and a gift from God for the Church.
Crucified Christ is the love of the religious, of the priest, of the consecrated son who gives his whole life out of love with the same intensity as Jesus Christ, who gave His life for the salvation of all. And this is what we will live today with these vows: the giving of Jesus Christ for us, which continues in us for the salvation of the world.
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