SMR General Chapter 2025

General Chapter of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, April 28, 2025, to May 17, 2025: 

In Rome, from April 28 to May 17, our sisters will be gathered in chapter to discern and set directions for our congregation for the next six years. Religious Congregations commit themselves to regularly schedule meetings that are called “chapters”. These chapters are open to either all the members of the congregation or to representative members of the congregation. In addition to setting the congregational directions, they elect leaders who are entrusted with facilitating that direction and the governance of the congregation for the next period. SMR has a general chapter every six years and has representatives from the various geographical locations as the participants. 

At the heart of a chapter is the desire to re-kindle, renew, and strengthen the founding purpose or charism of the congregation within the membership. The charism of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix is to make reparation with Mary – or, in another words, to manifest God’s tender love for the world in companionship with Mary, the Mother of Jesus.  

Themes that were suggested as preparatory for the 2025 chapter were new presences of SMR in the current global context, the vulnerability that is inherent in our membership at this time, and the need for renewed organization or internal structures within the congregation. 

Please pray with us that the presence of the Spirit of God will be felt by the participants at the General Chapter of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix in Rome during the days ahead. May they be blessed with deep peace, wisdom, and creativity as they discern the direction for the Congregation for the coming years.