Shalom Community held the retreat Healed to Love in London
The Shalom Catholic Community in London (UK) led a course called Healed to Love, on the last weekend of March. The course is part of the Ordo Amoris way, a set of five retreat-courses that has self-knowledge and inner healing as its background. The aim of these courses is to help people to put the different areas and life experiences in the order of love (“ordo amoris”) and, by doing so, to lead a more mature Christian life and an authentic life of holiness.   Here are some testimonials from those who participated in our retreat last month:   “Through the retreat Healed to Love, God came to reveal and to speak to my heart that He is rebuilding my ...

A missionary season!
“Each Christian and every community must discern the path the Lord points out, but all of us are asked to obey his call to go forth from our own comfort zone in order to reach all the ‘peripheries’ in need of the light of the Gospel.” (Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis) Lent is a special time of conversion and repentance. For most missionaries within the Shalom Catholic Community it is also a period of abandonment and openness to the Lord’s Will. It is during this time that the Community prays and discerns the path that the Lords points out in order for us to answer His call to “go forth and preach the Gospel”. We understand that the work is plenty ...

Hemoce realiza coleta de sangue no Renascer
Há 11 anos, o Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Ceará (Hemoce) mantém parceria com a Comunidade Católica Shalom, disponibilizando anualmente posto de coleta durante o evento Renascer, que acontece no Ginásio Paulo Sarasate durante o carnaval. Clique aqui e confira as cidades que realizarão o Renascer/Reviver. A unidade móvel, nos dias 2, 3 e 4 de março, de 9h às 16h, funcionará para quem, durante o evento, tiver o interesse de realizar a doação voluntária de sangue e o cadastro de medula óssea. Ao longo desses anos de parceria, a marca de 2.341 doações foi alcançada. De acordo com a coordenadora da captação, Nágela Lima, que participa do evento e acompanha a evolução desde o primeiro ano, as doações ...

Pope Francis receives founder of Shalom Community in private audience.
Pope Francis received on the morning of Friday (14), after Mass at Casa Santa Marta, the Episcopal conference of the Czech Republic and then the founder of Shalom Catholic Community, Moyses Louro de Azevedo Filho. During the private hearing, which lasted about 30 minutes, Azevedo renewed the offer of the life and mission of Shalom Community for the evangelization of all humanity, especially the young. According to the founder, in the occasion he recalled his meeting with John Paul II, on July 9, 1980 , when he handed the pontiff a letter in which he expressed his desire to spend his life and youth in the service of the Church. Two years later, he founded the Shalom Catholic Community. Moyses ...

Shalom Community at MEKT
From 22 to 24 November took place in Sarajevo the Mekt conference (Mitteleuropäischen Katholikentag – Central European Catholic Day) a meeting that was attended by representatives of the youth sector of episcopal conferences in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as representative guests such as Pablo Manuel Vilareal from Youcat , Father João Chagas from the youth sector of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Fr Michel Remery of European episcopal Conference among others. The theme was ” Faith – Facebook – Face ” and sought a dialogue about the importance of living the faith, witness it on social networks and face to face meetings. The Shalom community was represented by Felipe Bezerra, Covenant Community in ...

Strategic Planning in Nazareth
For us it was a rich experience of prayer, of unity of discoveries in God. Through the theme proposed by the community and the words of our Founder we had profound moments of listening to the voice of the Lord for the Shalom mission in Nazareth .At this time our hearts are filled with joy and gratitude for all the new that God has been concretely accomplishing among us as well as for all that He will do in His infinite love.      Testimony : We see the Strategic Planning (Mission Nazareth), as an important means of listening to and action of God. We entered into a new that God has began to outline for us which will overflow in concrete actions. We had ...

Father João Wilkes, member of Shalom Catholic Community, is the new head of the Youth Sector of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
Rev. João Wilkes Chagas, a missionary member of the Shalom Catholic Community, is the new head of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Youth Sector (PCL). The information was released today at the Council’s official website. The function, hitherto exercised by Father Eric Jacquinet, from the Emmanuel Community, is coordinated by the Pontifical Council and assists the Pope on matters related to the contribution that the lay faithful give to the life and mission of the Church, either individually or through organizations. Among the Sector’s activities is the organization of the World Youth Days, created under the inspiration of Pope John Paul II. Rev. João Wilkes Chagas is a specialist in the fields of Spiritual Theology by the Pontifical Institute for Spirituality ...