Why the name Shalom?
Do you know why the name Shalom and how this name came to be for the Community?
Second Preparatory Meeting for World Youth Day Panama 2019
With just six months to go before the next WYD in Panama more than 80 countries from 5 continents sent delegates from their dioceses and ecclesial movements to attend the Second Preparatory Meeting for World Youth Day Panama 2019 with the Local Organizing Committee to know more how Panama has been preparing the organization, accommodation, […]
“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.
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.
A sign of the Shalom charism throughout the world: The Church of the Risen who has passed through the Cross
Benefactors from all over the world are helping to build the Church of the Risen in the General Diakonia of Shalom Community. Work can move into a new phase of construction through the help of benefactors
Shalom Krakow mission has its first Polish postulant
The Shalom catholic missionaries from Brazil first arrived in the capital of Poland in 2015, just three years later the community has welcomed the first local vocation, Agnieszka Kluz the first Polish postulant of Shalom Life community in the land of Saint John Paul II. The foundation started with three missionaries of Shalom Life community […]
Siege of Jericho: the power of prayer in Madagascar
The Shalom in Madagascar, Africa, commemorated the Siege of Jericho with a seven-day adoration vigil from April 23-30, 2018. It began and ended with Holy Mass. According to Raimundo Manoel, a missionary member of Shalom Life Community in Madagascar, the Siege of Jericho vigil has been done every year in their chapel since 2012, but […]
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.
Marriage as a way to holiness
The call to marriage is a particular way of living the universal call to holiness given to every Christian in the Sacrament of Baptism.