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Yes, Halleluya Festival at WYD Krakow 2016!!
WYD 2016 will welcome the biggest Brazilian festival of integrated arts. The event will be integrated in the Youth Festival to be held in Krakow (Poland) from 27-29 July. If you are not familiar with Halleluya Festival it is Brazilian’s biggest Catholic festival of integrated arts and certainly the only one of the kind in the whole Latin America. It is known as “the party that never ends” due to what it aims to bring into its visitors: an experience of God’s love and we all know that His love never ends! The Festival was first hosted in the city of Fortaleza, Northeast of Brazil. It started as an inspiration from the youth ministry of Shalom Catholic Community. They wanted to offer a ...

Home Hospital
The Home Hospital As part of the spiritual preparations for WYD, in response to the call of Pope Francis – create a “Home Hospital”! The Idea The initiative came from students gathered in Krakow’s student chaplaincies. Observing with anxiety the changes that took place in the last years in the life of the city – they decided to act. In the center of Krakow, a city of so many saints, several dozen places appeared, which propagate impurity, inclination to evil and spread immoral stances.Sensitive to the evil and to human weakness, the students of Krakow’s universities decided to act. With a sense of responsibility for the city they decided to spiritually take care of the moral renewal of Krakow – ...

Can You ID the Devil?
The Chief Exorcist of Rome explains how the devil does appear. In a short interview with Rome’s Chief Exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, reporter Stefano Stimamiglio asks what the devil looks like. Father Gabriele: The devil is pure spirit, he has no corporeal substance and therefore cannot be represented in a form we can fully comprehend. This also applies to God’s angels who, if they wish to appear to men, must take on characteristics and features we can understand. One example is the Archangel Raphael, who in the Book of Tobit accompanies young Tobias on his mission in the form of a young man. Returning to the devil, what we can say is that he is much uglier than anything we ...

Pentecost Day: “I am sending upon you what the Father has promised”
It is very common to hear some Christians saying “oh, how I wish to have lived in the time of Jesus, being there side by side with Him, listening to His words, touching his garment and seeing His deed”. Definitely it must have been a unique experience for those who were near Him. However, the people who lived alongside with Jesus didn’t have full understanding of what was going on. Our Lord Jesus wasn’t clearly understood by those who were closer to Him. We can verify this in the Gospel in many occasions when He said “don’t you yet understand?” (Matt 15:16; Mk 8:17; Jn 8:43; Mk 4:11-13). We see sometimes the disciples, sometimes Peter, asking Him to explain the ...

How to Save Catholic Schools
It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of empirical research have shown, these kids have a better chance of successfully completing high school and college, and are better prepared to life-after-the-classroom, than their peers attending government schools. These inner-city Catholic schools are “public schools” in the best sense of the term; they’re open to the public (not just to Catholics), and they serve a genuine public interest, the empowerment of the youthful poor. There is ample research to demonstrate inner-city Catholic schools’ educational excellence, going back to the pioneering Coleman/Greeley studies in the 1970s. Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these schools: for, ...

Roots of the Culture of Death
  In Chapter 11 of Evangelium Vitae, Saint John Paul II refers to abortion and euthanasia as attacks made against human life at the time of its greatest frailty. He calls our attention to the fact that these attacks are no longer regarded as “crimes,” but as “rights”. They are carried out by health-care personnel and, even more disturbingly, more often than not, with the approval of the family, which is called by nature to be “the sanctuary of life”. This development, so widespread in its scope, so convoluted in its ethos, provoked the Holy Father to ask, “How did such a situation come about?” The question is a very good one, since this moral revolution, bringing into focus a ...

The Tau in Shalom Vocation
Meaning The TAU has a shape of the greek letter (T) that is a cross. St. Francis borrowed the Tau and what it meant to him from the Antonians. They were a religious community of men founded in 1095 whose sole function was to care for lepers. The Tau is the habit of the Secular Franciscan living in the world.Francis was very familiar with these men because they staffed the leper house in Assisi and the hospital of St. Blase in Rome where Francis went to stay. St. Francis was exposed to the Tau through the direct influence of the Antonians, but the greatest influence of all that made the Tau so dear to Francis, whereby it became his signature, ...

The TAU in Shalom Vocation
Meaning The TAU has a shape of the greek letter (T) that is a cross. St. Francis borrowed the Tau and what it meant to him from the Antonians. They were a religious community of men founded in 1095 whose sole function was to care for lepers. The Tau is the habit of the Secular Franciscan living in the world.Francis was very familiar with these men because they staffed the leper house in Assisi and the hospital of St. Blase in Rome where Francis went to stay. St. Francis was exposed to the Tau through the direct influence of the Antonians, but the greatest influence of all that made the Tau so dear to Francis, whereby it became his signature, ...
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