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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.

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in Nazareth
In Nazareth the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary started early with a mass held inside of the grotto of the annunciation, the place in where the Gospel passage of this feast was held. Fr. Bruno Varriano (OFM), rector and guardian of the Basilica of the Annunciation, presided the mass and it was  concelebrated by Fr. Jack Karam (OFM) who was celebrating 40 years of his perpetual vows in the Franciscan order, Fr. Evandro Lima (Canção Nova Community) who was celebrating the 4th anniversary of his Diaconate Ordination, and also Fr. Tarso Brasil, a priest member of the Shalom Convenant Community from Fortaleza, Brazil.  Shalom Community also took part in the celebration with the music and ...

A missionary family story
The testimony of a great family who left the capital of Brazil for a great adventure on the city-island of Vitoria, Southeast of Brazil.

God showed me that I am not alone
The Shalom community came into my life at the best time, it was a difficult but very beautiful moment. It came to stay in my heart forever. I met the community through a very good friend, a girl full of energy and noble heart. It was at a birthday party for both her and a Shalom missionary. I arrived at the party and since the first moment they welcomed me wonderfully, and bombarding me with a ton of questions … Where are you from?, What’s your name? What are you doing in USA? However, they did not bother me at all, on the contrary, I felt welcomed by everyone, even though they were complete strangers to me. At the end ...

Acamps Family
Here is the testimony of a mother who participated with her family in an Acamp’s, an event of the Community. She told Comshalom about the spiritual and human experience they have lived together, with other families.  God wants opened families, strengthened in the unity of Christ and in the joy which is source of life, prayer and gratitude! When I knew there was a Divine Inspiration about a Camp for families, I thought “this is crazy! It is not going to work: It can’t be a divine inspiration”. I imagined my family there, my children (less than 3 years old), all the conditions which could arrive in my mind to justify that I would not be a part of it. ...

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 from being confined and from clinging to its own security” (Pope Francis) My name is Gabrielle, I am 17 years old, I am from Brasilia and I live a life out of the ordinary. Some people think it is something incredible, others think it is crazy, but to me it is happiness. My parents are consecrated of Shalom Community as Covenant Community, my two big ...
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