Living the pandemic at home in Brazil
Yes, you read the title well: living the pandemic at home in Brazil. "But isn't she from Canada/ Cameroon?" Yes, I am. And no, I didn't get married here. Well... sort of. Shalom what? You see, since 2018 I am a part of a community called Shalom Catholic Community. I first met its members in the Florianópolis mission (south of Brazil) back in 2015, when I did a student exchange there. It was in an event from the Charismatic Renewal, a movement from the Catholic Church that in which we pray using the Charisms of the Holy Spirit. Basically, from outside, we pray in a similar ways as some of our Protestant brothers: with a lot of Praise and Worship, out loud, speaking in tongues, etc. Shalom is considered a Charismatic Community. So I met Shalom at that event in September 2015, and it was love at first sight. Every intervention that the Community made at that event: the play called "Canto das Irias" (the most famous of many plays of ours), the show with the...