Tips for finding silence. 

• Create a spot in your home where you can be away from any other activity. Here are some ideas for Creating a Prayer Corner in your home.
• Discuss with other family members your desire to spend this quiet time in prayer. If appropriate, invite them to join you on this journey. 
• Plan your mealtimes to allow you to continue your prayer time. Make something ahead of time, or make the task of preparing the meal a prayer itself. 

Technical preparations

• If you don't have ZOOM installed on your computer, download the app and try to familiarize yourself with the controls.
• Watch the Pre-Retreat Technical Orientation Video.

 

Virtual Retreat Etiquette and Suggestions for Success

Watching a retreat from home is a new experience for many of us. Here are some suggestions, requests and reminders to help us all stay focused: 

• Troubleshoot your ZOOM connection early
  Make sure you have the most recent ZOOM download.  Even if you are a pro at video conferencing, it never hurts to double-check your settings and make sure your audio and camera are correctly configured. 
  
  If you are new to ZOOM, please familiarize yourself with the controls and options of your version. We have prepared a short “Tech Orientation Video” to help walk you through some common problems; please take the time to review this video. After all of this, if you still have questions or concerns, please contact the Tech Manager assigned to your retreat. 

 

• Please keep your camera on during the retreat
  Your camera will be turned on upon entering the ZOOM meeting room. It is helpful to our priests and other speakers for everyone’s video to remain on during each talk. Presenting a talk to an empty room can be difficult for anyone, even our priests! They have requested that your camera remain on because having the ability to see your responses and body language while they are preaching encourages them as they strive to be instruments of the Holy Spirit. Of course, if you prefer the privacy, you may turn your camera off.

 

• Eliminate distractions from your computer to help you focus on the retreat
  Notifications from messaging applications, ringtones, and applications running on your desktop can be distracting to you, which can make your speaker feel disrespected and undervalued. Mitigating these distractions helps keep you focused on the content.

 

• Remember: we can see you
  As mentioned above, we are asking everyone to leave their cameras on. To avoid becoming a distraction for the speaker and other participants, please try to attend the retreat from a quiet area that has minimal background noise and movement. 

 

• Maintaining common courtesies
  Though this may seem obvious, video conferencing is just like an in-person interaction, therefore it is important to use the same courtesy you would use if you were in the same room. This includes being on time, paying attention to the speaker, minimizing multitasking and background noises, and refraining from interrupting.  

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Prayer to the Holy Trinity

My Lord, God of heaven and earth – Father and Creator, Son and Redeemer, Holy Spirit and Sanctifier – I adore you and love you with all my heart. I thank you for creating me, redeeming me, calling me to the Catholic faith, and watching over me last night. I offer you on this day my prayer, my work, and my struggles, my sufferings and my joys. Enable me to do everything out of love for you and according to your will. Make me steadfast in living my Christian vocation, patient in suffering, courageous in proclaiming my faith; fill me with wisdom on life’s journey and charity in dealing with others. Free me from sin and from all evil. May your grace always remain with me and with all who are dear to me. Amen.

Prayer to Jesus Christ

Lord Jesus, faithful friend of my soul and King of Regnum Christi, once more I offer you my life so you can teach me to do your will, give me the strength to follow you, and help me to imitate your virtues, especially those that please you most: charity, humility, justice, and honesty.

Make me a faithful, zealous apostle of your Church and grant me the grace that will enable me to proclaim your saving message to the brothers and sisters I meet on my journey today. May I live my Catholic faith with such evident conviction and share it with such ardent zeal that I become a fruitful and effective fisher of souls for the Kingdom. Amen.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin

Mother, I come before you on this new day to bless you for the great things almighty God has done for you, to thank you for the graces you have obtained for me, to consecrate to you all my thoughts, words, and actions, and to ask your blessing for me and every Regnum Christi member.

Intercede with God for all of us spread throughout the world, as we strive to live the faith, hope, and charity of which you set us such an admirable and noble example.

Enable me to imitate the life of prayer, obedience, humility, fidelity, sacrifice, and simplicity that you shared with your Son, our Brother and Lord.

Help me to form a meek and humble heart like that of your son, Jesus Christ, and obtain for me the grace of receiving him in the sacrament of his love as fervently as you throughout the years of your solitude.

Mother, tell Jesus how much I want to love him, how ardently I desire to become holy and be his apostle. Tell him how fervently and constantly I want to serve him in Regnum Christi, which is called to be a faithful instrument in extending his Kingdom throughout the world. Amen

Invocation of the Holy Spirit

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.

O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit you have taught the hearts of your faithful. In the same Spirit, help us to know what is truly right and always rejoice in his consolation. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Regína Cæli

V/ Queen of heaven, rejoice, alleluia.

R/ Because the Son you were chosen to bear, alleluia,

V/ has risen as he said, alleluia.

R/ Pray for us to God, alleluia.

V/ Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia!

R/ Because Our Lord is truly risen, alleluia.

V/ Let us pray: God our Father, you give joy to the world by the resurrection of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Through the prayers of his Mother, the Virgin Mary, bring us to the happiness of eternal life. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

R/ Amen.

 

V/ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

R/  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

(Three times)

 

Prayer to the Guardian Angel

Angel sent by God to guide me,

be my light and walk beside me;

be my guardian and protect me;

on the paths of life direct me. Amen.

Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe you are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.

To Begin:

Leader: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Leader: Come, Holy Spirit,

Response: fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Leader: Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created,

Response: and you shall renew the face of the earth.

Leader: Let us pray:

     O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit you have taught the hearts of your faithful. In the same Spirit, help us to know what is truly right and always to rejoice in your consolation. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Response: Amen.

Leader: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Response: Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Leader: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

Response: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Leader: Christ our King!

Response: Thy Kingdom come!

Leader:  Virgin most prudent, Mary, Mother of the Church,

Response: pray for us.    

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

To Conclude:

Leader: We give thee thanks for all thy benefits, almighty God, who live and reign forever.

Response: Amen.

Leader: Christ our King!

Response: Thy Kingdom come!

Leader:Virgin most prudent, Mary, Mother of the Church,

Response: pray for us.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The prayers above are taken from the Regnum Christi Prayer Book. The Regnum Christi Movement has compilation of prayers has been assembled to help its members pray in the various circumstances of life, and to promote spiritual communion with Regnum Christi members worldwide. In addition to the Movement’s own prayers, it includes a selection of other prayers from the Church’s long tradition, approved and enriched by the popes.

We hope that it will also encourage you to more frequent personal, family, and team prayer, as we hope it spiritually enriches all Regnum Christi members.

Find the complete listing of prayers from The Regnum Christi Prayer Book by following this link.