Ongoing Consultation on Restructuring
The ad hoc Restructuring Committee, on behalf of the Superior General and his Council, presents a document containing structural proposals for the ongoing Congregation-wide consultation on restructuring. These proposals stem from the recent Interchapter, held in India in August 2025.
All Oblates are invited to study these proposals, reflect on them, and submit their insights to procgen@omigen.org no later than 30 April 2026.
Thank you very much for your participation.
Sakubita Like, OMI – Procurator General
Letter for the Ongoing Consultation on Restructuring within the Congregation
Rome: February 20, 2026
Dear Brother Oblates,
The 37th General Chapter invited us to reflect on restructuring not merely as an organizational process, but more importantly as a call to religious conversion — a renewal of our Oblate Mission, a deeper faithfulness in living-out the Constitutions and Rules, and a deepening of the quality of our community life. The structures of our Congregation must remain at the service of Mission, mindful of our limitations yet, above all, offering a prophetic witness to a broken and fragmented world: that communion and unity among diverse peoples and cultures is possible when we are united in Jesus Christ and committed to serving his Mission among the poorest and most abandoned.
Restructuring, therefore, is an invitation to generosity of spirit, and to an inner freedom which allows us to embrace the missionary opportunities that God has placed before us as a Congregation at this time. It calls us to set aside personal preferences and particular interests, cultivating instead a readiness to being sent on Mission with a renewed vigor, and an openness to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
It is in this spirit that we continue a synodal discernment towards the 38th General Chapter. We are invited to reflect attentively on the restructuring proposals that emerged from the 2025 Inter-Chapter, which offer a valuable opportunity to prayerfully consider how the governance structures of the Congregation might be renewed in response both to the challenges we face, as well as to the new possibilities set before us.
We, therefore, request that each local community collectively discern these proposals and to submit their comments and feedback to the ad hoc Restructuring Committee, which will gather the responses and present them to the Superior General and Council. It is our hope that this ongoing synodal process will deepen our reflection, clarify a shared vision for the Congregation, and lead to thoughtfully discerned proposals being presented at the 2028 General Chapter.
We thank you for your active participation within this prayerful process, as pilgrims of hope in communion.
United in Jesus Christ and Mary Immaculate,
Luis Ignacio ROIS ALONSO, OMI
Superior General
Published on the OMI World website
