The Lord’s descent into hell – Holy Saturday
A reading from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday
The secret to the Divine Providence is to always give, says Emmir
The economy of the Kingdom is based on the logic of give oneself to others, explained the co-founder of the Shalom Catholic Community, Emmir Nogueira, during the course “The secret of the Divine Providence”. According to Emmir, Jesus reveals the Father’s / God’s mentality, the way in which He governs His house. “Jesus brings in […]
Covenant Community
The Covenant Community is called to follow Jesus Christ in the familiar experiences and professional activities, taking on the commitment to live said experiences in accordance with the Shalom vocation. Its members should be “the light of the world and salt of the earth” in secular environments. They come together twice a week for a […]
Life Community
The vocation to Shalom Community might be lived in two complementary dimensions: The Life Community and the Covenant Community. “In Life Community, our realization is no longer in what the world has to offer us, but it will be exactly in the renouncement of all this, for a total dedication to God and to the […]
Siege of Jericho in Madagascar
I met Shalom Community through a poster that invited us to the Siege of Jericho. Although I never heard anything about the siege, the poster with the Blessed Sacrament caught my attention ...
Feast of the Holy Innocents: 2,000 years later we still remember the pain their mothers felt
Thirty-four years ago I sat beside a hospital bed with its tubes dangling, pumps silent, all attempts at life support shut down, as I held my child, my 22-month-old son, cradling him in my arms as I watched the last flicker of his life ebb away. He died from drowning. But you, you mothers of the Holy Innocents, you whose babies, your young sons, perhaps your 22-month-olds, there you were cradling your children, bloody from the stab wounds inflicted by the soldiers. I think of you and I wonder.
“It’s More Fun in the Philippines”
Shalom Catholic Community missionaaries have just arrived in Manila. They are getting to know the people and their culture. Everything is new for them. But as missionaries, they have found in Filipino people's heart place to stay.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus in Shalom spirituality
In this month of June, which is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Catholic Church, Daniel Ramos, current Local Responsible of Shalom Catholic Community in Toulon told us about how the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is lived in Shalom Catholic Community spirituality. “Shalom Catholic Community adores and venerates the […]
Shalom Catholic Community is on the way to a new missionary house in the french capital, Paris.
On the solemn Corpus Christi Day, June 18th, Fr. Cristiano Pinheiro – Shalom Catholic Community International Assistant – and Amanda Pinheiro – the future Local Responsible of the first Shalom house in Paris – visited the work in progress of the new Shalom Catholic Community foundation in France, in its capital, the City of Light, […]
Shalom showed me that I am a child of God
My name is Javier Francisco Kovacs Benitez. I’m 32 years old, and I’m a pride Paraguayan! I was raised as a Catholic since I was a kid and although my family broke up when I was a child, I became quite involved with the church while attending school, but this dramatically changed when I was […]