05/09/2026
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๐๐๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ
โ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐โ
๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ | ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐จ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ
โMy eyes have seen your salvation.โ (Luke 2:30)
We, the 233 consecrated women and men representing 159 religious congregations, gathered in Zamboanga City for the Second Convention of the Conference of Major Superiors in the Philippines, came together in prayer, encounter, dialogue, and synodal discernment.
We gather carrying the pain of our people amid the wounds of our country and our world: poverty and inequality; corruption, political dynasties, and the misuse of public funds, including corruption surrounding flood control projects; disinformation and polarization; failures of accountability and the ongoing impeachment process; recurrent flooding and disasters intensified by the climate crisis; destructive mining; human trafficking and online sexual exploitation; migration and displacement; and wars that endanger innocent lives. We carry especially Filipino migrant workers and seafarers exposed to conflict and dangerous conditions, and all peoples suffering from war, violence, displacement, and insecurity.
Our gathering in Zamboanga is significant. Here, Christians, Muslims, Indigenous Peoples, and diverse cultures encounter one another amid poverty and struggle, conflict and reconciliation, interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding. It is a fitting place to discern our call to become prophetic witnesses of peace.
Inspired by Simeon and Anna, humble and attentive, โdisarmed and disarmingโ prophets, we allowed the Spirit to lead us through MULAT โข DAMA โข TINDIG โข PAGHAYO: to see with awakened eyes, feel with the heart of Christ, stand as prophetic witnesses of peace, and go forth together in mission. With gratitude, we acknowledge all who contributed through prayer, dialogue, listening, and discernment to this Final Statement.
MULAT: Recognizing Christ in a Wounded World
We opened our eyes to the wounds of our people, our communities, and creation. We see violations of human dignity and the struggles of Indigenous Peoples, migrants and refugees, seafarers, persons deprived of liberty, the urban poor, farmers and peasants, workers and small-scale fishers, especially women and children vulnerable to human trafficking and online sexual exploitation. We also recognize challenges within our religious communities: safeguarding, leadership, diminishing resources, the formation and accompaniment of younger members and formands, and the growing needs of our elderly.
We hear the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. The climate crisis, biodiversity loss, pollution, destructive mining, and extraction call us to ecological conversion. Pax Silica and the growing demand for critical minerals raise legitimate concerns about sovereignty, transparency, natural resources, environmental protection, and affected communities. We call for government transparency, meaningful public consultation, accountability, and protection of the common good, so that development does not come at the expense of people, ancestral domains, local communities, or creation. Inspired by Laudato Siโ, we affirm our kinship and right relationship with creation and the Rights of Nature.
DAMA: Feeling with the Heart of Christ
What we have seen must touch our hearts. Our discernment calls us to listening, accompaniment, communion, care, and above all solidarityโnot compassion from a distance, but sharing the struggles, hopes, and aspirations of our people.
We renew our commitment to communities where peace is lived, the elderly and young are cared for, and children and vulnerable persons are protected. We recognize both the possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and the digital age, which must serve authentic human flourishing. We choose to remain close to the wounded, convinced that faithful presence and shared struggle are themselves prophetic.
TINDIG: Standing as Prophetic Witnesses of Peace
What we have seen and felt calls us to take a stand. We stand with Christ and therefore with all whose life, dignity, rights, livelihood, land, waters, and future are threatened.
We choose truth over disinformation, justice over corruption, accountability over political self-interest and entrenched dynasties, dignity over exploitation, dialogue over polarization, safeguarding over abuse, solidarity over indifference, and right relationship with creation over destructive development.
For us, peace is the fruit of truth, justice, reconciliation, dialogue, human dignity, and right relationship with creation. We seek to become an unarmed and disarming presence of peace, building bridges across differences. This communion must also mark the relationship between bishops and consecrated persons as partners in the one mission of Christ.
PAGHAYO: Going Forth Together
What we have discerned must become concrete and sustained action. As CMSP and as leaders of our respective institutes, we commit ourselves to:
1. Deepen our prophetic identity through Christ, prayer, discernment, our charisms, and personal and communal conversion.
2. Build communities of peace and safeguarding through healthy relationships, accountability, listening, and the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
3. Care for our elderly religious with dignity through sustainable care, caregiver formation, shared resources, and inter-congregational initiatives.
4. Strengthen Mutual Relations between bishops and religious through dialogue, collaboration, shared discernment, and respect for their distinct roles, authority, autonomy, and charisms.
5. Exercise synodal and discerning leadership through participation, transparency, financial accountability, shared discernment, and empowerment, especially of the young and those at the margins.
6. Strengthen inter-congregational collaboration by sharing charisms, personnel, expertise, formation, facilities, resources, and responses to common challenges.
7. Remain in active solidarity with the poor and vulnerable, especially Indigenous Peoples, migrants and refugees, Filipino migrant workers and seafarers, persons deprived of liberty, and victims of violence, human trafficking, and online sexual exploitation, particularly women and children. We support cooperative development, livelihood initiatives, and economic solidarity that strengthen impoverished communities.
8. Strengthen peacebuilding and interreligious dialogue, becoming bridge builders and standing with peoples affected by war and conflict, including migrants and seafarers exposed to violence and insecurity.
9. Stand courageously for truth, justice, human rights, and human dignity alongside the urban poor, farmers and peasants, workers, small-scale fishers, Indigenous communities, migrants, and seafarers; resist corruption, political dynasties, disinformation, violence, abuse of power, misuse of public funds, and oppressive structures; and strengthen our collective advocacy through the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission (JPICC).
10. Respond decisively to the climate crisis by reclaiming our kinship with creation and recognizing Earth and all life as our common family; calling on government to declare a climate emergency advancing ecological conversion and the Rights of Nature; resisting destructive mining and extraction; protecting land, waters, biodiversity, marine life, and coastal ecosystems; demanding transparency and consultation on critical minerals and natural resources; and standing with communities affected by ecological destruction.
11. Harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence toward a โcivilization of love,โ promoting its responsible use to uphold human dignity, justice, relationships, and the common good.
12. Deepen our co-responsibility for CMSP, its JPICC, and its Mission Partners by committing personnel, expertise, financial and material resources, and sustained engagement to our common mission.
We exhort all our sisters and brothers, and all who share our charisms and spiritualities, to walk with us in this missionary outreach. Together, as Church and People of God, may we place the poor at the heart of our mission and foster solidarity, dialogue, justice, and peace in our wounded world (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 17).
SENT FORTH IN HOPE
We leave Zamboanga convinced that the future of consecrated life will not be secured simply by preserving our institutions, but by the credibility of our Gospel witness.
MULAT, we open our eyes. DAMA, we allow our hearts to be moved. TINDIG, we take our prophetic stand. PAGHAYO, we go forth together.
Women and men of different congregations and charisms, we are united in one consecration, one Church, and one mission. With one another, with the poor, with peoples wounded by violence and war, and with the whole community of creation, we go forth together in hope.
As we leave Zamboanga, we entrust our commitments and our common mission to Nuestra Seรฑora La Virgen del Pilar, beloved Patroness of this city. May she accompany us as we carry Christ into the wounded places of our world and become bearers of His peace and hope.
๐๐ง ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐, ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐.
Second Convention of the Conference of Major Superiors in the Philippines
Zamboanga City, Philippines | 5 September 2026
