3rd Anniversary Mass of Boston Mission
Last May 19th, the mission in Boston celebrated its 3rd anniversary with a solemn mass. At the same time, they welcomed 3 new postulants and received 2 temporary promises in Covenant 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 […]
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.
“I found the one I could give everything to”
Jamile is a missionary of Shalom Catholic Community who made her Definitive Promises in the Shalom Charisma as a Covenant Community member on Sunday 8th of April, the Feast of Divine Mercy. Currently, she lives in Boston where she made her solemn and eternal commitments to offer her life for the evangelization of others. In order to share this remarkable moment she wrote a letter addressing all those who are part of the Shalom family.
God performs a Pentecost of Love in Shalom Catholic Community
In Fortaleza, Brazil about 3,200 members of Life and Covenant Community (postulants, disciples and members with temporary and definitive promises) took part in the Community Retreat at the Ceará Event Center on April 21st and 22nd.
A new concept to me!
Café comshalom is something Germany has never seen before and a brand new concept to me. It’s custom-tailored to the youth’s needs and brings strangers closer together. The café offers just the right mixture of tasty food, great music and comfortable atmosphere. The slogan “More than a café, a meeting point” aren’t just empty words […]
The power of the empty Cross
How frightening it must have been to watch the passion of Christ. To see him carry the cross, beaten and bloody. To watch him die, and with his death everything his disciples believed in was shaken to its foundation. For only a moment the thought creeping in: were the promises, the glimpses of God all […]
The Tau in the Shalom vocation
The TAU The TAU is in the form of the Greek letter TAU (T), which is in the shape of a cross. The two major influences for Francis, in relation to the TAU, were the Antonians and the Fourth Council of the Lateran. Saint Francis got the TAU and it’s meaning from the Antonians. They […]
Lent begins in the Land of Jesus
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent in the Holy Land: local Christians are preparing to live this season intensely.