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Shalom Catholic Community: Spreading Joy and Faith in Boston through Evangelization and Community Celebration

The Shalom Catholic Community is a charismatic Catholic community that focuses on the evangelization of the young people in Boston and on nurturing its community, which is open to all! At Shalom, there are many fun events and socials that glorify our God and encourage evangelization. For example, during the winter, we provide hot chocolate and invite believers and non-believers alike to participate in Praise and Worship. At the community, there are dedicated and pious missionaries that live for Christ, our Lord. There are Covenant Community Missionaries, who live their missionary vocation in the midst of their professional lives. For example, being a teacher and being a missionary. There are also Life Community Missionaries, who dedicate all their time exclusively ...

Shalom Community is counting the days for the great celebration of its 35th anniversary in Rome with Pope Francis

2017 has barely begun and the members of Shalom Community are already counting the days for the great celebration of thanksgiving for its 35th anniversary in September in Rome at the Shalom Convention 35years. There will be 10 days of activities, conferences, shows, pilgrimage to Assisi, International Youth Congress and a moment of meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis, where the whole community will renew its promises of life offer. The Shalom Convention is an event not only for the Shalom Community but open to the whole Church, so anyone who wishes can participate by making their registration through the Shalom35years website available in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian where you can check the entire schedule. The foresight is ...

Park destroyed in the Second World War is Peace celebration stage a week of missions

On Friday, 22, young people from Shalom Community gathered at Szczęśliwicki park in the heart of Warsaw. This modern and pleasant park was built upon the rubble that the Second World War left after destroying 75% of the city. Warsaw was rebuilt and the young people were able to celebrate the peace in this place. Young from German, Tunisia, France, Brazil, Italy, Israel, Hungary, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador and China, which are part of Shalom Community, were gathered once again for the Holy Mass, the Chaplet of Mercy and the show with Shalom Community members. People who were there had been delighted by the joy that comes from God written in Shalom Community young faces. Dances, songs, smiles and hugs. ...

Park destroyed in the Second World War was the stage of Peace celebration in the week of missions

On Friday, 22, young people from Shalom Community gathered at Szczęśliwicki park in the heart of Warsaw. This modern and pleasant park was built upon the rubble that the Second World War left after destroying 75% of the city. Warsaw was rebuilt and the young people were able to celebrate the peace in this place.   Young from German, Tunisia, France, Brazil, Italy, Israel, Hungary, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador and China, which are part of Shalom Community, were gathered once again for the Holy Mass, the Chaplet of Mercy and the show with Shalom Community members. People who were there had been delighted by the joy that comes from God written in Shalom Community young faces. Dances, songs, smiles and ...

Halleluya Festival: the celebration of mercy in the land of Mercy

Halleluya Festival is known as the biggest integrated arts festival in Brazil, leading young people to have an experience with God through arts, sports, courses and Eucharistic celebrations. But one of the main places in the event is the area dedicated to the Sacrament of Reconciliation held in the so-called “Mercy Area”. In Fortaleza city, Brazil, where the festival was born, about three thousand confessions takes places during the event every year. This year, the area will be widen up. It has been defined as the Feast of Mercy as we are in an Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. One of its editions will take place in Poland during WYD, the land where Jesus would make known to the world His mercy through Saint Faustina ...

Special Celebrations at Shalom Community in London

Three missionaries of Shalom Catholic Community from London (UK) made their solemn commitments on the 24th and 25th of July, 2015. Francisca de Oliveira made her First Temporary Promises as Covenant Community and the couple, Clelio and Josi Souza, were admitted as new Disciple members also from Covenant Community. The first celebration took place at St Monica’s Catholic Church in Hoxton Square, London. The Rite of First Temporary Promises occurred within a Eucharistic celebration and marked an important step in Francisca’s vocational life. Francisca, a Brazilian young woman, had moved to London in 2004 searching for a change in her life. Less than a month of her arrival she was invited to a prayer group led by Shalom Community. “I ...

Pope Francis leads Corpus Domini celebrations

Pope Francis celebrated Mass at Rome’s cathedral Basilica of St John Lateran on Thursday evening, to mark the Solemnity of the Most Precious Body and Blood of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, often known by the abbreviations of its Latin name, Corpus Domini or Corpus Christi. Mass was followed by the traditional torchlight Eucharistic procession, in which parish groups, sodalities and charitable and fraternal organisations of all kinds participate along with ordinary citizens, from the Lateran basilica to the Basilica of St Mary Major. There, the Holy Father led the faithful in a brief moment of Eucharistic adoration and gave Eucharistic benediction. In his homily, Pope Francis reflected on memory – understood as remembrance and recollection, but also and even primarily ...

An exception to the Status Quo: the ecumenical celebration in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

One of the highlights of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Voyage to the Holy Land will be his meeting with Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, a meeting that will be followed by a joint ecumenical celebration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The ceremony will include representatives of the five Christian communities who maintain an historic presence at the major Christian holy sites – including the Holy Sepulchre. The relations between the Latin (or Catholic) community and the Greek, Armenian, Coptic, and Syrian communities, and between the Christian communities and the local government authorities, are maintained according to an arrangement known as the “status quo.” “The ‘status quo’ applies principally… to the shrines, four to be exact, that are shared by ...
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