The 2019 Missionary Expedition: a sea of hope for Madagascar
A team of 30 volunteers provided health services for the sick, taught cooking classes, and visited people in hospitals, prisons and poor villages.
Shalom releases album “I’m burning with love” in four languages
With songs of praise, prayer, supplication to the Holy Spirit and also liturgical, "I'm burning with love" has already touched those who listen.
The opening Ceremony went through the history of the Community and of the YJP (Youth for Jesus Project)
The opening had songs that marked special times in the Vocation with voices well known by the crowd.
“The Culture of Peace and the Franciscan Presence in the Holy Land”
by Fr. George Lewett O.F.M. While in initial formation as a Franciscan of the Holy Land in the United States. The Guardian of the community, who was also teaching me and my confreres a course in faith renewal, told us that, unlike soldiers who get stationed in the Middle East, we would not be […]
Jesus, the supreme Governor of our lives
Barbara Freitas, a young member of the Shalom Community talks about the General Assembly that takes place every 6 years.
Gabriella Dias talks about CHARIS, the International Service of Communion for The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR)
Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) The Catholic Charismatic Renewal was founded in the late 1960s in the United States of America. It is a movement within the Catholic Church which spread rapidly around the world, and today has more than 120 million followers.[i] “At the core of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is the ‘grace of Pentecost’ […]
The gifts of the Holy Spirit: The gift of tongues
The theme of charisms has returned to current affairs, after a long period1. In fact, we see the rise of the «movement of awakening of the Spirit of larger proportions of the whole history of Christianity», so that this time «presents itself as a time of the charism, reminding us that in reality the time […]
Shalom in Paris: a small flame for a great new work
On October 4th 2017, the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, the first missionaries of the Shalom Catholic Community arrived in the heart of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, near the Parish Church of Our Lady of the Cross, in Ménilmontant. It is a very lively district of the capital, thanks to its diversity […]
Acamps Summer Festival: Time of encounters
My name is Bogumiła and I am from Poland. I’ve known the Shalom Community for almost two years, attending the prayer group in Kraków. I went to the Acamps Summer Festival last year in August. It was truly a wonderful time of joy, praise and worship. It was a time of encounters – a diversity […]
Dignity, human rights, prejudice, friendship and more…
Winner of the Oscar for Best Film of 2018, Green Book is a dramatic comedy directed by Peter Farrelly and inspired by a true story about music, friendship, traditions and civil rights.