The General Minister challenged the friars to be seriously focused on the quality of Below are some quotes from the General Minister's report:

• There are "some lacunae and negative aspects to which careful attention must be given if we do not wish our fraternal life to disintegrate. Among the more common and important ones are these: activism, individualism, divisions, disenchantment and skepticism, fatigue and resignation, and the lack of deep communication." 
• "A Franciscan fraternity must aspire to be much more than a working business or a club for friends." 
• "One of the great difficulties in the building of fraternity is the lack of authentic communication among its members, and the difficulty of speaking together in a way that is just and true, without reservations and with complete confidence, starting with our own poverties." 
• "To communicate is, above all, to give oneself, to make others participants in that which is mine and, at the same time, be open to receiving that which belongs to the other." 
• "It seems that the future of consecrated life requires, among other things, collaboration, reorganization and restructuring...the future of the Order will come about through interprovincial collaboration." 
• "Facing the future we see the need to strengthen and empower a culture of collaboration, creating new spaces for fraternal collaboration in the Conferences, among different Entities and in the universal Fraternity." 
• "The question of fundamental equality among all the brothers, cleric and lay, is not a secondary question for us. What is at stake is the profound content of our forma vitae."
• "Among the means for cultivating the dimension of faith are: the celebration of the Eucharrist, sharing experiences of faith and apostolic concerns, the prayerful reading of the word, sacramental life, and personal and fraternal prayer. Fraternal life is accompanied by the experience of faith of each Friar."
• "We have to recognize the need to grow in inter-personal relations if we do not wish to feel we are strangers to each other."
• "Our communication often continues to be superficial and poor: marginal topics and problems are communicated, but not the vital and central ones of our vocation. We often limit ourselves to sharing what we do, but not what we think, and, even less, what we feel. Loneliness and isolation, which many Friars are sufffering, is the result of this skin-deep communication."
• "It is equally important to reinforce the known means and to make them more dynamic: the local chapters, the review of life, informal recreation, eating together, working out the fraternal project, etc."

Saying that "the future of the Order depends on interprovincial collaboration," the General Minister also made mention of the various forms of collaboration taking place throughout the world; and the efforts for some Provinces to combine. He mentioned in particular the current discernment process underway between St. John the Baptist and Assumption BVM Provinces.