{"id":17217,"date":"2025-07-31T19:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focolares.es\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:02:05","slug":"2026-assembly-first-stage-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focolares.es\/en\/asamblea-2026-primera-etapa-en-marcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly 2026: first stage underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The General Assembly of the Work of Mary, Focolare Movement, is held every five years. The next one will take place from March 1 to 21, 2026.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:13px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of the most important events of the Focolare Movement. It will elect its new leaders, and the work carried out, through dialogue about ideas, proposals, and motions, will shape the Movement&#039;s guidelines for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first phase of consultations has already begun, and all members of the Focolare Movement are called upon to contribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Margaret Karram<\/strong>, president of the Focolare, in her message announcing the celebration of the Assembly, invites everyone <em>&quot;to live this preparation with moments of deep listening and communal discernment, putting into practice the experience of synodality learned and lived during the Synod.&quot;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Assembly 2026: Message from Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTrOEZENTgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Assembly 2026: Message from Margaret Karram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To better understand what the Assembly is, how it will unfold, and how to prepare for this important event, the following video has been created with graphic information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Assembly 2026: What is it? 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