Shalom Maputo: how it all started
The Shalom Catholic Community arrived in Mozambique. The Brazilian missionary João Bala told to Comshalom how the community was settling down.
Convention 2017: The international Shalom Youth Congress
During Shalom Convention where we are going to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Community, right after our encounter with the Holy Father, Shalom youth, from all around the world, is going to meet up for a very special event. Vitor works in the Youth Advisory in the Diaconia, in Brazil, which is organizing the […]
My extraordinary life
Family in mission: See the young Gabrielle Gomes’ testimony, fourth daughter from a family of 10 children, who let everything behind on their native land to go in mission! “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy […]
The Sacred Heart of Jesus in Shalom spirituality
In this month of June, which is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Catholic Church, Daniel Ramos, current Local Responsible of Shalom Catholic Community in Toulon told us about how the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is lived in Shalom Catholic Community spirituality. “Shalom Catholic Community adores and venerates the […]
Shalom showed me that I am a child of God
My name is Javier Francisco Kovacs Benitez. I’m 32 years old, and I’m a pride Paraguayan! I was raised as a Catholic since I was a kid and although my family broke up when I was a child, I became quite involved with the church while attending school, but this dramatically changed when I was […]
Shalom Catholic Community meets the new cardinal of Sweden Monsignor Anders
On Wednesday 14th of June in Rome, at Shalom Catholic Community International Headquarter, a great meeting took place, between the new cardinal Anders Arborelius, Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, the founder of Shalom Catholic Community, Moysés Azevedo, the International Assistant of the Community, Fr. Cristiano Pinheiro and the shalom missionaries of this house. His Grace Anders […]
Friendship Love in a Relationship
Once a couple has developed a deep level of romantic love, they usually move onto friendship love. This is also very important for a happy marriage. Often when people who have been married for 50 years are interviewed, they are asked what is their secret to a long and happy marriage. A common answer […]
Why is the Holy Mass SO Powerful?
At the hour of death the Holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your greatest consolation. Every Mass will go with you to Judgment and will plead for pardon for you. By every Mass you can diminish the temporal punishment due to your sins, more or less, according to your fervor. By devoutly assisting […]
Pentecost Joy – Fr Raniero Cantalamessa
On Sunday June 4 we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Feast of Pentecost. Pentecost wasn’t and isn’t a once only event but rather a perennial one in which we can expect to receive a fresh and new outpouring of the Holy Spirit – a new Pentecost, if you will. Fr Raniero […]
The second anniversary of Shalom Catholic Community in Boston
On June 3rd, Shalom Catholic Community is going to celebrate a Massat St. Anthony’s Church in honor of its 2nd anniversary of foundation in Boston, the acceptance of Danielle LaPointe and Matthew Pandolfo as postulants in Shalom Covenant Community and the renewal of the Higor and Mariana Fontoura’s Temporary Promises also as Shalom […]