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This year's theme focuses on the significant changes that are affecting religious life and draws on the long-standing practice of religious to rely on the Holy Spirit to navigate through changes.

Although it is widely recognized that male religious are living and ministering in a much-altered context from even 20 years ago, the pace and amount of these changes can seem overwhelming, as can what to do about them. This year's Assembly is designed to prompt discussions around a series of key topics affecting the life and ministry of male religious, including mutual relations, safeguarding, and larger social cultural shifts.

In addition to these conversations, Praesidium will present their revised Standards for an endorsement vote by CMSM members.

Sessions included in the Online Assembly:

• Pre-Assembly: The Role of Leadership in Vocation Ministry
• Mutual Relations: Issues & Possibilities, a conversation with Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer & Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, CPPS
• Presidential Address, by Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, CPPS
• Praesidium Accreditation Standards for Catholic Religious Institutes by Christy Schiller
• Social Science Perspectives on Changing Realities by Fr. Tom Gaunt, SJ
• Leadership Reflections on Changing Realities, panel discussion
• Safeguarding - Looking Back and Looking Forward , Fr. Dan Dorsey, GHM, and Br. Nick Gonzalez, FSC
• Post Assembly: Communal and Ministerial Planning*

For any sessions with small group discussions, you will be invited to participate in small group discussions with other virtual attendees and in a large group discussion with all of the Assembly participants. Recordings of all the listed sessions (except the Post-Assembly) will be made available to all registrants. 

Following each session, you will be invited to participate in small group discussions with other virtual attendees and in a large group discussion with all of the Assembly participants.

For more information, visit our National Assembly website or contact us.

*The Post-Assembly will only be available live. There will be no recording made available.