Today'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. We hope this episode inspires you to lean close to His heart in this novena of Pentecost and hear how He invites you to respond in love to His love.
Listening to Julia's story, Laura is reminded of a quote from the book "Divine Intimacy": "Your goodness is your mission. God's goodness is infinite, and nothing can be added to it. So, the goodness you bring to this earth was not created with your existence. Whatever good that comes from you already exists in Him. Some part of His infinite goodness was previously hidden until your birth. This is your mission. You are an icon of His goodness. You are needed. Show the world your goodness; show the world a part of God's face previously unseen."
May this episode bless you, dear listeners. Know that you are always in our prayers as you go about being icons of God's goodness and love!

Today'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.

"I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. "I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one."-John 17: 21-24

In the episode, Lisa mentions several resources. Here's a list:

A simple explanation of St. Ignatius' 19th Annotation: https://jesuitseastois.org/the-spiritual-exercises

Where she first met Jesus in the Eucharist: https://www.heartsaflame.org.nz/

Where she is currently teaching: https://divinemercy.edu/academics/spiritual-direction-certificate/

A great resource to learn more about discernment: https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/fr-timothy-gallagher-discernment-of-spirits/

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This 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 and talents. Over the years, it has also touched the lives of thousands of young women and girls who have met Jesus through the experience of Captivenia. We never know where our yes to Jesus may lead, but it is always to something beautiful.

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. '" — Jeremiah 29:11.

You can find out more about Camp Captivenia at www.captivenia.com.

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Happy 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, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” -John 21: 1-3

As mentioned on the podcast, more about the ministry in Magdala can be found at www.magdala.org. Or you can follow them on Instagram @experiencemagdala

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Today'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."-Psalm 139: 1-4

As mentioned on the podcast, RC Music Collective music can be found at https://www.rcmusiccollective.org/

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Two 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 Corinthians 4:17

And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?-Esther 4:14

C'est pour cela que je fus nais (for this I was born)-St. Joan of Arc