Consecrated women, invested with the same call to be disciples of Christ by exercising the service of leadership for the life of our Congregations,  we gathered in Rome, from 5 to 9 May 2025, for the XXIII Plenary Assembly and the 60th anniversary of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). 

The joy and hope rooted in the mystery of Christ's death and Resurrection, and the communion among us, expressed in themselves the theme that brought us together: “Consecrated life: a hope that transforms.”

We are grateful for what Pope Francis has brought to the vitality of consecrated life. In this jubilee year, at a time of profound divisions in our world and transition in the life of the Church, we wanted to make our specific contribution as consecrated women. We have practiced together the “conversation in the Spirit” to help foster a synodal culture in our Congregations. 

With “cords of hope” that we stretch out to one another, we have created an international network that connects us to all peoples and to all of creation. The UISG report shows real expertise in bringing together the small actions of our Congregations into large-scale projects and supporting them with training, accompaniment, and resources.

We give thanks for the new “The Anna Trust” Foundation, launched during this assembly, which will help us care for our older sisters, especially in the most vulnerable places. The 2025-2031 strategic plan, the fruit of synodal work among us, is now offered to us as a “toolkit” containing many of the tools we need to look to the future with confidence. This plan still leaves plenty of room for the surprises of the Spirit. 

By the grace of God, we have been able to recognize, in the witness of our sisters and in the lives of those to whom they are sent, "icons of the Gospel", signs of hope that are already transforming us. 

At the end of this assembly, we commit to seek to become more:

• women of peace, resilient, standing at the foot of the Cross, who dare to weep over the sufferings of the world and to commit themselves, sometimes to the point of giving their lives.
• women who offer the fragrance of their lives for free by being present at frontier places, who refuse exclusion and discrimination and who give consolation and attention to those who are rejected.
• women who keep watch in the night and who, like the moon, reflect the light and let the stars sparkle around them. For the night is a privileged time: a time of secret work in the bowels of the being, a time of birth, a time that opens up to the dawn of a new hope. 
• synodal women who engender evangelical and inclusive communities; women who weave, for our common home, a harmonious garment that makes the beauty of creation shine forth. 
• women prophets who, in old age, illness or wounds suffered, remain signs of hope, waiting and praying. 

As women in charge of the leadership of our congregations, we commit ourselves to nurturing hope within ourselves and transmitting it because "we put all our hope in the grace of the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:13)