Being Life Community
The Life Community is the core of the Shalom vocation. Their lifestyle replicates the model of the early Christian communities.
Praise in the storm at the Acamps Summer Festival
Summer storms are usually beautiful. Especially if they are at a beach, the rain mixing with the still water can change the place into a wonderful, unique location. Last night the storm at Lake Balaton changed the place into a very unique one indeed, although, not exactly the way we would first think. Everyone was getting […]
The last days before the Acamps
The clock’s ticking, an amazing experience is coming up.
Life Community: heart of the Shalom Community
The vocation to Shalom Catholic Community can be experienced in two complementary dimensions: Life Community and Covenant Community. Life Community is the heart of the Shalom Community.
“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.
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.
Registration to the next WYD are in full gear
Less than a year to go to the WYD in Panama (January 22-27 2019). Preparations in the Central American country are in full gear especially after Pope Francis officially opened registrations last February. Over 40 thousand signed up in less than a week, divided into 1000 groups. The preparations to welcome over half million youths are in full gear. We discussed the organization of the event with Fr João Chagas, Director of the Youth Office of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.
Shalom Expedition Program brought joy and help to a remote location in Madagascar
On Saturday 17th of March, the city of Antsiranana, a remote location in the far north of Madagascar, lived a day of great joy at Shalom Evangelization Center where the volunteers of Shalom Expedition Program could provide medical care, cooking classes, physical activities and personal hygiene education for adults and children. Benefactors from Brazil supported the […]
Covenant Community
The Covenant Community is called to follow Jesus Christ in the familiar experiences and professional activities, taking on the commitment to live said experiences in accordance with the Shalom vocation. Its members should be “the light of the world and salt of the earth” in secular environments. They come together twice a week for a […]
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.