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Describing the purpose of the Conversation Group, Bro. Lawrence J. Cada, SM, the founder, used the image of a person walking through the night with a lantern, curious about the path ahead. If this Marianist venture is to continue, we should do more than stumble into the future’s darkness: we should use the resources we have to help each other see, as clearly as possible, the most important issues and questions facing the Marianist world.

We can conduct ongoing conversations around these topics. Members can use written exchanges, occasional gatherings, and informal communication to keep one another and the NACMS Team abreast of reading and thinking which illuminate our Marianist journey into the future. Members also assist the NACMS Team with designing and offering programs.

Since our beginning in 1988, the Conversation Group has met every six months. Often a topic has continued for two or three meetings. Areas around which conversations have been conducted include

• culture (in general, and United States culture in particular) and how traditional Marianist characteristics are either impeded by or embodied within the dominant culture
• emergence of Marianist lay communities and factors that have shaped them into the entities they have become today
• how we might turn to Mary and her  Magnificat  to give momentum to our compassion and works of justice.