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Having done an extensive consultation of the consecrated women in
the territories of Mexico, Monterrey, Spain, Chile-Argentina, Venezuela-Colombia, Brazil, and
North America, the Pontifical Delegate has named the new Territorial
Directors and their councils. Their duties will commence on November
25, the Solemnity of Christ the King. Gloria Rodríguez, General
Director of the consecrated women, sent a letter on November
4 to all the consecrated, to let them know the
good news.
Cardinal De Paolis has named 4
councilors for the Territorial Directors of Mexico, Monterrey, and North
America, and 2 councilors for the Territorial Directors of Chile-Argentina,
Venezuela-Colombia, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, in accordance with the Rules
of the consecrated women of Regnum Christi.
Here
we present a brief bio of each of the new
Territorial Directors, and ask for prayers for their new mission.
We would also like to thank all those who are
now completing their service in this position, and we ask
Our Lady to accompany and sustain them.
MÉXICO
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 | Irene Alemany Herrera
was born in Madrid, Spain and has been consecrated for
29 years. She holds a degree in Education and Development
from the Anáhuac University (Mexico City). She has
worked as a formator of consecrated women in different centers
in Mexico and Spain, and as Regnum Christi section director
in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Valencia. She also worked as a
prefect of discipline in the Oxford and Godwin schools, and
as director of the Cumbres schools of Valencia and Maddox Academy in Mexico City. Since March, she has
been serving as interim Territorial Director of the consecrated women
in Mexico – a service she will now continue. |
MONTERREY
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 | Maria Brackett was born in
the United States in 1968 and has been consecrated for
21 years. Before her consecration, she received Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees in English in the United States; she also has
a degree in Education and Development from the Anáhuac University and one in Religious Studies from the Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum (Rome). She was the director of
the Precandidacy in the United States for several years, worked
as vice-principal of the Highlands School in Seville,
and was the director of formation at Pinecrest Academy in
Atlanta. For the past several years she has worked at
the formation center for consecrated women in Monterrey – first
as a professor, and later as director of the community
of consecrated women who work there. She has been the
interim Territorial Director of the Monterrey territory since March, and
will continue her service there. |
SPAIN
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 | Bernardita García Muñoz was born
in Santiago de Chile and has been consecrated for 17
years. She holds a degree in Education and Development from
the Anáhuac University and one in Religious Studies
from the Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum. She has worked
as a formator in precandidacies in the United States and
Spain, and in formation centers in the United States and
Mexico. She was also a formation assistant at the Highlands School in Seville. She has been working most
recently as the director of the consecrated community in Velencia
and assistant director at the Cumbres School there. |
VENEZUELA
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 | Rosa María
López Castañeda was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico and has been
consecrated for 35 years. Before her consecration, she studied Social
Services, and she has a degree in Education and Development
from the Anáhuac University. She has worked as
a formator of consecrated women in different centers in Mexico,
Rome, Spain, and Colombia. She was also a formation instructor
at the Rosedal School, and director of the Alpes School
in Guadalajara and the Cumbres School in Medellín, Colombia. She
has been the Territorial Director of the Venezuela territory since
2011. |
CHILE
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 | África Pemán Pérez-Serrano was born in 1965 in Cádiz,
Spain. She has been a member of Regnum Christi since
she was 16, and was consecrated in 1985. Before her
consecration, she studied law, and she now holds a degree
in Education and Development from the Anáhuac University
and one in Religious Studies from the Regina
Apostolorum Athenaeum. She is currently studying a postgraduate degree in
Management. She has worked in Regnum Christi and ECyD sections
in Monterrey and Guadalajara. From 1999-2005 she was the director
of the Bosque School in Mexico City. She has also
worked as director of the consecrated communities in Guadalajara and
Mexico City. Since 2005 she has been a member one
of the consecrated communities in Madrid, director of the Highlands
School there, and a spiritual director for the consecrated women.
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NORTH AMERICA |
 | Nancy Nohrden is from Massachusetts, USA
and has been consecrated for 14 years. Before being consecrated
she received a degree in Philosophy, and now also has
a degree in Education and Development from the Anáhuac University. She has done vocational work in the United
States and Germany, was the Regnum Christi section director for
young women in Saint Louis, USA, and worked as director
of formation at Pinecrest Academy in Atlanta. She has been
a member of the council for the Territorial Director for
consecrated women in North America, and since March has been
director of the consecrated women in Atlanta. |
ITALY
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 | Cecilia Bayón Weidmann was born
in Paraná entre Ríos, Argentina and was consecrated in 2001.
Before her consecration she studied a degree in law. She
also holds a degree in Education and Development from the
Anáhuac University and a degree in Religious Studies
from the Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum. She has worked
as an assistant at the consecrated women’s center of formation
in Monterrey, as assistant of formation at the Highlands School in Seville, and in ECyD and Regnum Christi
sections in Milán and Rome. She is currently working in
youth ministry and at the European University of Rome. |
BRAZIL
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 | Patricia Soto Prieto was born
in Irapuato, Mexico and has been consecrated for 23 years.
She has a degree in Education and Development from the
Anáhuac Univeristy. She has worked as section director
for Regnum Christi and ECyD in Caracas and Monterrey, as
well as a formator and professor in the formation center
in Monterrey and as director of the precandidacy in Mexico
City. She also worked as director of the consecrated women
in Mérida and section director of the women’s Regnum Christi
section there. Since 2011 she has been the director of
the consecrated women in Lomas Anáhuac (Mexico City). |
We entrust all
of the new Territorial Directors and their councilors to Our
Lady, with this prayer from The Service of
Authority and Obedience:
O sweet and holy Virgin
Mary, with your believing and perplexed obedience, at the announcement
of the angel you gave us Christ. At Cana with
your attentive Heart you showed us how to act responsibly.
You did not wait passively for the action of your
Son but you anticipated it, making him aware of the
need and with discreet authority taking the initiative to send
the servants to him.
At the foot of
the cross, obedience made you the Mother of the Church
and of believers while in the upper room every disciple
recognized in you the gentle authority of love and service.
Help us to understand that every true authority in
the Church and in consecrated life has its foundation in
being docile to the will of God and help each
one of us become in fact, authority for others with
our own life lived in obedience to God.
O
merciful and compassionate Mother, ‘You who did the will of
the Father, ever ready in obedience,´ make our lives attentive
to the Word, faithful in the following of Jesus, the
Lord and Servant, in the light and with the strength
of the Holy Spirit, joyful in fraternal communion, generous in
mission, prompt in our service to the poor, looking forward
to the day in which obedience in faith will flow
into the feast of Love without end.
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