Forms of life are a gift from God to each person to unable them to love and to serve Him. The Shalom Community is composed by faithful people from all the forms of life: celibate for the kingdom of heaven, married and single people; priests, deacons and seminarists. United by a consecration of life, they live having as a model the diversity and unity of the three persons of the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. In the Shalom Community, priests live their ministry according to the own spirit of the Vocation, to serve the Church and all the brothers and sisters. They do not belong to a specific branch in the community, but they are one with ...

The vocation to Shalom Community might be lived in two complementary dimensions: The Life Community and the Covenant Community. “In Life Community, our realization is no longer in what the world has to offer us, but it will be exactly in the renouncement of all this, for a total dedication to God and to the service in his vineyard” (Statutes of Shalom Community). The Life Community is the core of Shalom Community. Its life style plays the model of the first Christian Communities, where everything is put in common and all the goods, projects and personal plans are renounced. Its members are missionaries of both genders and forms of life. They are called to follow Jesus Christ for their love ...

Diaconia is the headquarter of the Shalom Catholic Community’s General Government where the advisories, secretariats and sectors are linked directly to the general moderator work. It is called Shalom’s heart, because it assists the missions in many services linked to the missionary and communitarian action, the work with the youth, and to the human and vocational promotion. The name “diaconia” comes from Greek “diakoneo”, which means “service made through love”, without constraint and in a perfect harmony with Christ’s teaching. The name was suggested by the Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko in 2006, when he came to visit Shalom. At that time, the Community was making efforts to start the building of the General Government’s headquarter. Placed in the district of Aquiraz, ...

  Maria Emmir Oquendo Nogueira is the co-founder and is responsible for all of the formation in the Shalom Catholic Community. Emmir is married and has four children. She was born in Fortaleza, Brazil. She lived in Rio de Janeiro from when she was five years old until her twenties. She received her education from Lourdes and Ursuline sisters, as well as from Jesuit priests while at University. When she returned to Fortaleza, she graduated with an undergraduate degree in Literature and Linguistics and specialized in the teaching of English for foreigner students, linguistics and phonetics, as an “extension student” at the University of Michigan. She belongs to a Catholic family and never left the Church. Nevertheless, right after her ...