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Divine Mercy Feast in London
Shalom Catholic Community invites you to celebrate the Divine Mercy Sunday at St. Monica Catholic Church in Hoxton, London. It will be held on April 12th, 2015,  starting at 3pm and ending at 7pm with Holy Mass. It will be an afternoon of prayer, Adoration, prayer of the Divine Mercy chaplet, confession, Holy Eucharist, veneration of St Faustina’s relic and a talk to deepen our faith on this devotion. Come along and bring your family! Divine Mercy Devotion History  Sister Faustina was a simple religious nun from the Congregation Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.  She was born in Poland in 1905, was raised by her very poor family and survived the terrible years of World War I. However, as Godlikes to ...

Pope: “Where there is no mercy there is no justice”
Pope Francis on Monday warned against righteous hypocrisy and urged Christians to be merciful.   During his homily at morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta, the Pope reflected on the Gospel readings of the day and on another Gospel passage pointing out that “where there is no mercy there is no justice”. Referring to three women in the Bible, Pope Francis said they represent three allegorical figures of the Church. The women he said are: Susanna – an innocent woman; an adulteress – a sinner; and a poor and needy widow. They symbolize – the Pope said – the holy Church, the sinning Church and the needy Church. They are all judged and ‘condemned’ by judges who are evil ...

Shalom Vocational Path
“If it burns in your heart the Shalom Charisma, this is your path to God and to holiness. Don’t be afraid to offer your life to Christ, to the Church, to the poor and to mankind!”     – Moyses Azevedo, founder of Shalom Catholic Community If you wish to follow a new path of vocational discernment within the Shalom Community, if you feel an attraction or even a divine appeal to give yourself to the Kingdom of God according to our vocation, you should enrol in a vocational group at the nearest city where Shalom Community is present or get in touch with the Vocational Assistance to start a distance vocational path. The Vocational Path has a minimum duration of ...

Have you read Pope Francis’ message for you this Lent?
“Make your hearts firm” (Jas 5:8) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lent is a time of renewal for the whole Church, for each communities and every believer. Above all it is a “time of grace” (2 Cor 6:2). God does not ask of us anything that he himself has not first given us. “We love because he first has loved us” (1 Jn  4:19). He is not aloof from us. Each one of us has a place in his heart. He knows us by name, he cares for us and he seeks us out whenever we turn away from him. He is interested in each of us; his love does not allow him to be indifferent to what happens to us. Usually, ...

Message of Pope Francis for World Youth Day 2015
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE THIRTIETH WORLD YOUTH DAY 2015 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God (Mt 5: 8) Dear Young Friends, We continue our spiritual pilgrimage toward Krakow, where in July 2016 the next international World Youth Day will be held. As our guide for the journey we have chosen the Beatitudes. Last year we reflected on the beatitude of the poor in spirit, within the greater context of the Sermon on the Mount. Together we discovered the revolutionary meaning of the Beatitudes and the powerful summons of Jesus to embark courageously upon the exciting quest for happiness. This year we will reflect on the sixth beatitude: “Blessed are the pure ...

Pope: religion must never be abused in the cause of war
Pope Francis underlined the significance and urgency of interreligious and ecumenical dialogue in a nation, like Sri Lanka, that is undergoing a process of reconciliation after civil war. Speaking on the first full day of his apostolic journey to Sri Lanka, Pope Francis addressed an interreligious and ecumenical gathering and reaffirmed the Church’s deep and abiding respect for other religions. To the spiritual leaders present at the gathering, the Pope said “at this moment of your nation’s history (…)  May the growing spirit of cooperation between the leaders of the various religious communities find expression in a commitment to put reconciliation among all Sri Lankans at the heart of every effort to renew society and its institutions”. “For the sake ...

Pope: “Int’l community must take concrete steps for peace
Pope Francis has called on the international community to take concrete steps to bring about peace and to protect all those who are victims of war and persecution. In  a wide-ranging discourse to members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, the Pope focused on a series of urgent issues which – he said – derive from a culture of rejection “which severs the deepest and most authentic human bonds, leading to a breakdown of society and spawning violence and death”. Speaking in Italian to the representatives of the 180 States which have diplomatic relations with the Holy See,  the Pope said we see painful evidence of the consequences of this culture of rejection “in the events reported daily ...

Pope Francis’ message for 2015 World Day of the Sick
The theme of Pope Francis’s message for the World Day of Sick being celebrated on 11 February 2015 is “I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame,” taken from the book of Job. Please find below the English translation of the full text of the Pope’s message:  Sapientia Cordis “I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame” (Job 29:15) Dear Brothers and Sisters, On this, the twenty-third World Day of the Sick, begun by Saint John Paul II, I turn to all of you who are burdened by illness and are united in various ways to the flesh of the suffering Christ, as well as to you, professionals and volunteers in the field of ...

Pope meets Italy’s National Olympic Committee
“Sports are at home in the Church” – that’s what Pope Francis told managers and athletes of Italy’s National Olympic Committee Friday.  In a meeting in the Vatican, the Pope congratulated them on Rome’s candidacy as a possible venue for the 2024 Olympics, but quipped; “I won’t be here!” He observed that Italy’s National Olympic Committee celebrates its first centenary this year and recalled that it draws inspiration from the fundamental values laid out in the Olympic Charter, which places at the forefront the “centrality of the person and the harmonious development of humankind, the defence of human dignity.”  He remarked that the Charter stipulates that sport can contribute to the building of a better world, without wars and tensions, ...

“I will teach my child only one thing: love”
In 1995, during the war in the former Yugoslavia, Sister Lucy Vertrusc and two other religious sisters were raped by Serbian soldiers. As a consequence, she found out later that she was pregnant. An Italian newspaper published years later a heartfelt letter that Sr Vertrusc wrote to her mother superior with an amazing witness of a spousal-love towards Jesus Christ. The letter was published at the request of the mother superior herself perhaps in an attempt to show the world that a person who experienced God’s love can always give a different answer to the culture of death. After such a dreadful experience one can expect a letter filled with pain, sorrow or bitter. Instead, what it is found is a deep sense ...
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