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What is the Purpose of Lent?

22 March 2017

Every year it is the same thing: Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of a new season in the Catholic Church. The Calendar of Catholic events doesn’t change. We are different persons, though. The Lenten season changes everything and strengthens the appeal of the Church in our present moment. It’s because we are different individuals that […]

Four Tips to live a holy Lent

24 February 2016

We are still at the beginning of the Lent, a time where we are called to conversion. This is not a sad time, absolutely, but it is a time of recollection, of inner desert, a time to look inside ourselves, to turn to our family and to the community life. The word “lent” comes from […]

Fr. Cantalamessa’s 5th Lenten Homily: East and West Before the Mystery of Salvation

27 March 2015

Here is the fifth Lenten homily given this year by the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa. * * * With this meditation we conclude our overview of the common faith of East and West, and we conclude it with what concerns us more directly, the problem of salvation: that is, how […]

Follow us on ‪#‎lenteveryday‬

25 March 2015

Our small sacrifice of today on our ‪#‎lenteveryday‬ challenge is to start the novena to Saint Joseph. It can be said by anytime of the year, specially around his feast, which is today. His intercession is known as a powerful instrument of God’s providence. Follows the link to the novena:https://comshalom.org/en/novena-to-saint-joseph/ ‪#‎saintjosephprovideforus‬ ‪#‎comshalom‬ ‪#‎instashalom‬ ‪#‎toronto‬‪#‎shalomtoronto‬ ‪#‎catholicchurch‬ […]

Have you read Pope Francis’ message for you this Lent?

2 March 2015

“Make your hearts firm” (Jas 5:8) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lent is a time of renewal for the whole Church, for each communities and every believer. Above all it is a “time of grace” (2 Cor 6:2). God does not ask of us anything that he himself has not first given us. “We love because he […]

Valentine’s day with the Pope

14 February 2014

Mass with Pope Francis Concludes the Synod of Bishops

27 October 2024

Following more than three weeks of focused work, the Synod of Bishops has drawn to a close, with its Final Document now officially approved, voted on, and released.

Bishop of Brooklyn, Most Rev. Robert Brennan, celebrates Holy Mass at the SYC

12 October 2024

The Shalom youth celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Aparecida with a Holy Mass, presided over by Most Rev. Robert Brennan, Bishop of Brooklyn.

“At Acamps, I felt God’s true love for me and my life changed completely”

26 May 2024

Barbara Skoczykloda, from Poland, 23, tells us her testimony about her encounter with God and her change of life during the Acamps Summer Festival in Europe: "Don't even think about it, live this experience and God will surprise you!"

40th anniversary of the first meeting of the youth with St. John Paul II in Rome

15 April 2024

The St. Lawrence International Center and the Shalom Community held the “Festival of Hope” to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first youth meeting with Pope Wojtyla in St. Peter’s Square, the seed of World Youth Day. On April 13 and 14, the “Festival of Hope” was held at the St. Lawrence International Youth Center […]

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