Convention 2017: The international Shalom Youth Congress
During Shalom Convention where we are going to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Community, right after our encounter with the Holy Father, Shalom youth, from all around the world, is going to meet up for a very special event. Vitor works in the Youth Advisory in the Diaconia, in Brazil, which is organizing the event. “Shalom Community’s Youth is invited to renew its life offering and is going to be sent as protagonists of today’s evangelisation.” For the 35th anniversary of the Community, for which God starts a new time of graces, Shalom Youth Congress (SYC) is very important. The SYC became an annual meeting of young people of Shalom Community, which is already a great grace. Rome, in ...
Shalom Convention Rome 2017 – 35 Years – Let’s go together!
Shalom Convention 35years at the great Basilica of St John Lateran Rome 2017
#ShalomConvention35years is a world meeting of Shalom Catholic Community to celebrate its anniversary and will be held from September 3rd to 9th, 2017. It will be a pilgrimage which offers the opportunity to visit historical basilicas and holy places in Rome and Assisi. The program includes talks, prayers, cultural exchange, performing arts, catechesis with Shalom Catholic Community’s founder, Moysés Azevedo and the co-founder Emmir Nogueira and the Shalom International Youth Congress. A private audience with Pope Francis at Paul VI Hall is also foreseen as one of the greatest moments in Shalom Catholic Community’s history. Families, young people, lay celibates, priests, bishops are already registered. Join us! Save your place! Shalom Convention 35years first meeting will be a Eucharist Celebration ...
Shalom Convention 2017 | Meeting with Pope Francis at Paul VI audience Hall
The Holy Father Francis’ video message for the 32nd World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017)
Today, 21 March 2017, the Holy Father’s Message to young people in preparation for the 32nd World Youth Day 2017 was published. The Day will be celebrated at diocesan level on 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday, on the theme: “The Mighty One has done great things for me” (Luke 1:49). This year, to encourage wider dissemination of the Message, Pope Francis wished to present it to young people throughout the world with a video in which he indicates certain themes from the document and invites them to undertake the path of spiritual preparation leading to the next international celebration of World Youth Day, scheduled to take place in Panama from 22 to 27 January 2019. The following is the full ...
2017 January | Pope Francis prays for Christian unity to help those most in need
Let’s Prepare Our Hearts for he Charismatic Catholic Renewal Golden Jubilee 2017
History
The Shalom Catholic Community was founded on July 9, 1982, after its founder, Moysés Louro de Azevedo Filho, offered his life and youth to bring Christ and the Catholic Church to those who were distant, especially the youth. On June 30, 1980, Pope John Paul II arrived in Brazil for his first visit to the country. The pontiff visited 13 cities and took part in the opening of the X International Eucharistic Congress in Fortaleza (CE). When he was 20 years old, Moysés Azevedo was chosen by the Archbishop of Fortaleza, Dom Aloísio Lorsheider, to give a gift to the Pope in the name of the Archdiocese’s youth. Moysés started to pray, asking God what he should offer to ...
Pope Francis
Gratitude that overflows, prayer that unites us! Pope Francis The Pope of mercy Our Friend “Gratitude is the language of married souls” (AE). In the face of the Easter of our beloved Pope Francis, our hearts can only react with praise and gratitude for his twelve years of pontificate, in which he left the Church a living legacy of mercy. For us, the Shalom Catholic Community, Francis left deep marks: his welcome, his joy, his love for God, for the poor and, in a special way, those who are our primacy: the young! Pope Francis was the first pontiff to welcome us in a private audience. There were more than five official meetings with the Community, in which he not ...
