During the months of January and February 2026, the General Chapter of the Legionaries of Christ, the General Assembly of Consecrated Women and the General Assembly of the Consecrated Laity of Regnum Christi will be held in Rome. These meetings mark a decisive stage of discernment, evaluation and projection of the common journey of the whole spiritual family.
In this context, on January 29, Pope Leo XIV received in private audience the participants of the Assemblies of Consecrated Women and Consecrated Laity. The Pontiff encouraged them to live faithfully the charism they have received, to exercise an evangelical government at the service of the people and to deepen communion within the Church and Regnum Christi. The audience was experienced as a gesture of pastoral closeness and spiritual impulse for the present context.
Communion
For Jorge Lopez, delegate to the General Assembly of Consecrated Laity and Director General of Regnum Christi between 2014 and 2020, “the audience was a gesture of Pope Leo XIV's solicitude towards the consecrated women and men and indirectly towards the entire Regnum Christi family”. In continuity with the path begun in previous years, he recalled that “as Pope Francis did in 2020, we are invited to continue and deepen a process of renewal,” stressing that the Pope's message emphasizes “living the vocation in fidelity to the charism and the common mission.”.
Lopez especially highlighted the call to communion: the Pope, he said, “invites us to live our vocation in fidelity to the charism received and to the common mission. It also includes an explicit invitation to live communion within the family of Regnum Christi,” something he considers essential, since “the meeting with the Pope itself we have lived in this way: a moment of communion among us, as Church.”.
Subjects covered
The work of the General Chapter and the General Assemblies have as objectives to evaluate the management of the previous period, to elect the new governments for the next six years and to discern, in the light of the Holy Spirit, the current challenges of the evangelizing mission. All of this seeks to contribute specific accents that enrich the common mission and strengthen the path of Regnum Christi in continuity with the General Convention of 2024.
In the General Chapter of the Legionaries of Christ, they address, among other topics, formation in identity, religious and priestly life, vocation promotion and their mission within Regnum Christi. The Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi reflect on their vision towards 2032, financial sustainability, living poverty, ongoing formation and possible modifications to their own law. For their part, the Consecrated Laity deepen their spiritual and community life, the living of evangelical poverty, the apostolic projection, the organizational structure and Regnum Christi understood as a spiritual family and apostolic body.
These meetings in Rome take place in an atmosphere of shared discernment and ecclesial responsibility, with a view to strengthening the identity, mission and communion of the entire Regnum Christi family at the service of the Church and the world.
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