It’s time to prepare for Christmas
Walking on the streets I can see bright colorful lights, hear some nice and peaceful carols sung by children, pass by shops promoting sales so that you can get the best Christmas presents for your loved ones. It’s time to prepare for Christmas. But it’s obvious that in many places the real meaning of this time got lost somewhere. For many people Advent is only the time leading up to Christmas. It’s the time to decorate our homes and prepare for a Christmas feast, to find the best presents and feel the love that everyone’s talking about. And while it is indeed nice to walk among the people who are preparing for something they find important, this time calls for ...

“The Culture of Peace and the Franciscan Presence in the Holy Land”
by Fr. George Lewett O.F.M.       While in initial formation as a Franciscan of the Holy Land in the United States. The Guardian of the community, who was also teaching me and my confreres a course in faith renewal, told us that, unlike soldiers who get stationed in the Middle East, we would not be going there with weapons. We were to be peaceful crusaders like St. Francis of Assisi, our founder. This great saint, who came to the Holy Land 800 years ago on a pilgrimage of peace, did not carry any arms with him. During this year that we are commemorating his visit to the Holy Land and his meeting with the Sultan of Egypt, Malik al-Kamil in ...

What is this book: “Writings?”
From time to time it is possible to view posts, comments, stories and tweets in the social media networks of the Shalom Catholic Community or its members which have content from the book Writings. But what is it about this book that attracts so much attention? Certainly, it is not the size of the miniature version which one can hold in the palm of a hand. Rather, its magnetism lays in the richness of its words. For the Shalom Community, Writings forms the basis of Shalom spirituality, revealing the identity of the Charism and the spirit of the founder Moysés Azevedo. The book is divided into sections which tell and forever preserve the origins, challenges, results and essential points of ...
Jovem a qual é destinada a Exortação Apostólica Christus Vivit

The novelty of Christus Vivit
Pope Francis gave “to young people and to the entire people of God” an apostolic exhortation called Christus Vivit, Christ Lives. It is a document that gathers all that was reflected on, discerned and discussed during the last Synod on “Young people, Faith and Vocational Discernment”, which was held in Rome from October 3rd to 28th 2018.