“A mission that has changed my heart”
The expedition to Cape Verde includes twenty-one missionaries, twenty of whom are Brazilian and one Italian, who’s me.
Bastions of the Shalom vocation: St. Francis of Assisi and St. Teresa of Ávila
Saints are bastions of vocation and are examples of how to live and grow in faith for the Shalom Catholic Community.
Shalom Catholic Community assumes the responsibilities of the ‘San Lorenzo’ International Youth Centre in Rome
On the 13th of March of 1983, St. John Paul presented the young people of the world with a gift. He inaugurated the ‘San Lorenzo’ International Youth Centre, a few feet away from St. Peter’s Square, in Vatican: a welcoming place for pilgrimages, encounters, prayer and evangelisation for all the young people who come to the Eternal city.
Acamps Festival – History, Holiday and Concerts
Still almost two months till the big event, plenty of time to get ready, to learn about the place, the people and all the things we’ll do there at Acamps.
Why the name Shalom?
Do you know why the name Shalom and how this name came to be for the Community?
“It was born in us a missionary desire as a family”
Higor Fontoura is a Brazilian member of Shalom Catholic Community who has been lived in Boston, USA as a missionary with his family since 2011. His wife Mariana Fontoura is also a member of Shalom Covenant Community and they have 3 beautiful children that fill them with pride and happiness, the older Amanda is 15 years old, Higor Filho is 9 years old and Isabella is 1.
Emmir Nogueira: It’s a matter of heart
The more I pray and meditate on the mission, the more I see it is a matter of the heart. Only God knows why. Perhaps my personal story has influenced me a bit. I have lived in mission in Asia, Africa, at a time when, as a child, the nuns and priests encouraged us to […]
Shalom Youth Congress (SYC) in Brazil
They came from different regions and cultures but the experience was the same: the experience with God's love through the Shalom charism.
What I learned about holiness through Shalom and the Pope
An exhortation to today’s call to holiness made me reflect on this word: Holiness. “My modest goal is to repropose the call to holiness”, says the Pope in Gaudete et Exsultate. It may seem simple, but I remember perfectly the day when I felt for the first time that that holiness was also for me: […]
How can marriage be a way towards happiness and holiness?
The decision to entirely engage their lives to one another, to live a common life, not a life by themselves, is many times taken without the fully understanding on what this new “adventure” God Himself has driven them to engage to.