Deacons of the Shalom Catholic Community were ordained Priests
Ângelo Júnior Alves, Edinardo de Oliveira e Marcelo Sales Araújo are awaiting their special day!
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.
The main topic of the meeting was “what about you? Who do you say I am?
Some young people from the Shalom youth prayer group in Rome, Italy, had a retreat last week. Two days of talks and prayers.
Saint Joseph Feast in Holy Land
The solemnity of St. Joseph was celebrated with great devotion in the land where he lived, worked and cared for his family. Today on the House that probably he built stands the Basilica of the Holy Family or the Nutrition of Jesus. In 2006, Shalom Community was invited by the Custody of the Holy Land […]
Novena to Saint Joseph
The Shalom Catholic Community invites you to pray the Novena to Saint Joseph. It can be said at any time of the year, specially on the days surrounding St Joseph’s Feast which is held on the 19th of March. Saint Joseph is a dear saint to our beloved Pope Francis and to many Catholics around the […]
The Feast of Saint Peter’s Chair: an anniversary for Shalom Community
The 22nd of February 2012, the day of the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, the Statutes of Shalom Catholic Community have been definitely approved. According to our founder, Moysés Azevedo, the fact that the Statutes of the Community were approved on this day means that we exist to profess the faith of Peter. […]
Cardinal Rylko, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, is the new archpriest of the basilica of saint Mary Major
Cardinal Rylko had led the Pontifical Council for the Laity from 2003 until it ceased to exist on September 2016. Pope Francis named the Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko to the post of archpriest of the basilica of saint Mary Major on last December. Shalom Community missionaries from the missions of Rome and Civita Castellana and many […]
Training meeting for worldwide missionaries comes to an end.
AQUIRAZ, Brazil – Representatives of Shalom Catholic Community from 34 countries gathered at Diaconia (Shalom’s headquarters) for a training meeting organized by the Apostolic and Missionary Advisories in the Community. Once a year, missionaries from different countries are able to come together to prayer, to listen to important updates and guidelines, and to receive formation […]
The worst sinners who became saints
Ask any Catholic to name a sinner who became a great saint and most will answer, “St. Augustine.” As a teenager, Augustine abandoned the Catholic faith for the pagan Manicheans sect, and took a mistress; they lived together for 17 years and had a son. Without meaning to diminish in any way the seriousness of […]
Can a sinner become a saint?
Did canonized saints ever commit sin? Were they born with a halo? Were they perfect in every way possible? In the eyes of many Christians saints can appear too “heavenly” or “perfect” to be imitated. Often when reading a biography of a saint the reader can be left with the false impression that if you […]