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Braziland: Brazilian Party in the university
Last Wednesday, on October 2nd, Shalom Catholic Community promoted BRAZILAND! A Brazilian party with typical food, cultural dances and music was held in De La Salle University for the students to have the opportunity to get to know more of the Brazilian culture!                 The Shalom Catholic Community, present in the Philippines since 2017, will start heading a weekly prayer group in the place, with dance, praise and worship, prayer, formation and news for every encounter! The party presenting the culture of the missionaries’ home land was just an excuse for the students to get to know the missionaries and for them to get inspired to attend the following meetings.                 The students also had the opportunity to be involved ...

Shalom Manila celebrates Second Mission Anniversary
In this special occasion for the community in the Filipino country, a Thanksgiving Mass took place in the Shalom House. With the presence of the Most Reverend Bishop Honesto Ongtioco, D.D. of the Diocese of Cubao, where the Shalom’s Mission House is located, the missionaries received, last Saturday (14), priests, religious and lay people to this happy moment. With gratitude during his speech, the Most Rev. Bishop Honesto Ongtioco, D.D., reminded us about the primacy of the Charisma Shalom: the evangelization through the Cross. “In the Cross, there is life. There is grace. There is salvation. Finally, there is peace. Because this, we are called to spread the Shalom to the world.”, Bishop Ongtioco said. We have the young people ...

2 years of Miracles!
Miracle! This is the best word to explain about these two lasts years of the presence of the Shalom Catholic Community in the Philippines. Miracle because this is the will of God to this country and to this people. Miracle because through this Charisma of peace God showed, and continues showing us, what is His way. The way of the true life! As a new community, and together with the Church, we are called to spread the Hope, the Love and the Joy from our God, Jesus Christ, the One who passed trough the Cross.   Two years of mission, as a foundation, we know that it is not enough. We are just starting something that really started 37 years ...

“Buwan Ng Wika” A Filipino Party
Shalom Manila celebrated the ‘Buwan ng Wika’ The Shalom Catholic Community – Mission Manila (Philippines) – celebrated in the last August 24 the “Buwan ng Wika” Fiesta (National Language Month). The party happened at the Shalom’s Mission House in Quezon City. Joining the celebration of the Filipino language that happens throughout the country in the month of August, the missionaries prepared a moment of fraternity, prayer and joy among the guests. To this, the people that served there adjusted the mission’s house for it to become as fair to the culture as possible: ‘Jeepney’, ‘Sari-sari’, ‘Lechon’ and, of course, the Karaoke TV was there and made the celebration more attractive and closer to the Filipino people. Buwan ng Wika The ...

“Stay online with Jesus”
The 6th Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE) was held from July 18-21 at the University of Santos Tomas in Manila. The theme of the PCNE was Filipino Youth Walking with Jesus and was chosen to celebrate the Year of the Youth as declared by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines in response to Pope Francis’ Synod on Youth last year. The goal of this year’s PCNE was “to thank God for the gift of the youth, listen to them, and to give the youth opportunity to be protagonists of new evangelization…” 1 There were 4 days with many graces and a great experience with the young people, many of whom were the main speakers.  The first day was mostly ...

The end of an era… To begin a NEW ONE!
In September of 2017, we arrived in the Philippines for a new chapter of our missionary lives. None of us have ever lived in a foreign country before and for us it was like going on to live a new adventure that this life of following Jesus would guide us to. From then to now, we have had the opportunity of getting to know this culture in all the possible ways through food tasting, as of almost every day in the 6 first months that we lived in a farm located in a province named Masbate and even after that, experiencing the most famous delicacy of the country called balut. Also, we have had the chance of going to different ...
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