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The Canção Nova Community was born from the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (Pope Paul VI). Based on this inspiration and with the authorization of the Bishop of the time, Dom Afonso de Miranda, Mons. Jonas Abib made the first call to young people who felt the need to give their lives entirely to God,

in community. THe community grew and formed with men and women, yong and old, single, married, and celibate, priests and deacons. Currently, there are more than 600 members spread across different mission fronts throughout Brazil and the world. Recognized in 2008 by the Pontifical Council for the laity as a private international association of believers, endowed with legal personality, it has headquarters in the city of Cachoeira Paulista, Diocese of Lorena, Sao Paulo – Brazil.

The term Canção Nova corresponds to a new song, a theme that runs through the entire history of salvation: it is the song of the redeemed, the song of new women and men for the New Word. The Cançao Nova Community is committed to being this song for the Church and for the world and intends to be, in the Church, the “House of Mary”, understanding this expression in the biblical sense: of the descent of Mary, of the race of Mary, her mother and educator.

The foundation of the Canção Nova Community and the Gospel: to live and communicate it in an integral way, in the effectiveness of the Holy Spirit, while waiting and presenting the glorious coming of the Lord, it must be the commitment of all members. The Canção Nova is called to be the House of Mercy.

The Canção Nova Charism is a renewed and prioritized way of taking the personal experience of the encounter with Jesus Christ in the effectiveness of the Holy Spirit. It aims at the formation of new men for the New Word, through evangelization, in order to prepare and hasten the glorious coming of the Lord. Today the church has been given free grace: a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit is sent to carry out its mission in communion with the whole Church.

The mission of the Canção Nova is to evangelize and to communicate Jesus Christ and the new life that He brought, with the goal of training new women and men to the New World. Everything that the Community does, all evangelization carried out, the meetings, the work and the life of the members is based on this objective, which is to lead the personal encounter with Christ.

The driving force of all evangelizing action in the Canção Nova Community is to prepare people who are willing for the glorious coming of the Lord. This reality expresses the apostolicity of the Community.

The members live for the sake of evangelization, everything they do has this sole purpose.

Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of Canção Nova Community

Luzia Santiago
Co-Founder of Canção Nova Community

Wellington Silva Jardim
Co-Founder of Canção Nova Community

In the Canção Nova Community, members are called to live five Life Principles which are the values that govern the way of being and acting for all members of the Community.

The Canção Nova Community is made up of women and men, young and adults, married, single and celibate, priests and deacons.
But, first of all, they are sisters and brothers and they must be treated as so, therefore, all the members must have the maximum effort to avoid the chances that can be an obstacle to the experience of chastity.

The Canção Nova Community has the grace to experience every day the fulfillment of the promise that the Lord makes them:
“Seek first the Kingdom of God and ist justice and everything else will be given to you in addition’ (Cf. Mt 6, 25-33). God urges to invest the life in the Gospel, in the trust and in the loving Providence of the Father: God had provided” (Cf. Gn 22,8).

With docility of mind and heart, the will of God is always accomplished in everything, which manifests itself through the Magisterium of the Church and the authorities constituted in it. All must be obedient to the Pope and to the bishops in communion with him, especially to the bishop of the diocese where the Mission Front is located.

All members must also be aware of, in matters relating to the nature and purposes of the association, the authorities constituted in the Canção Nova Community. the members who are called to exercise authority, assume it in an attitude of service because of the mission. In this way, the associative body that is the Canção Nova Community, coordinated and harmonious, fully, and efficiently fulfills its vocation.

Sharing and transparency are key realities in the achievement of fraternity. In the daily coexistence and in community and service meetings, we need to move forward in transparency with each other. It is essential to share what we think and feel, our aspirations and desires, our motivations, our projects, our difficulties.

Nothing should be hidden, crammed into the heart. This is how we achieve deep relationships: we make ourselves known and know others in depth. This living in the light for transparency and sharing is just as important as prayer.

When you neglect one thing or another, life gets complicated: tensions grow, judgments, murmurings, conflicts arise.

The Canção Nova Community is made up of human and fragile people. Each one must continually strive to correct in himself those attitudes and ways of being that do not build fraternal life in community. Reconciled living is a duty off all members who must always and as soon as possible (Cf. Mt 5, 23-24; Ef 4,26b) forgive each other of the offenses received (Cf. Mt 18, 21-22).

The Vocational Path is a time of discernment and encounter with God’s will. Candidates receive the invitation to discern with God and the vocational team whether or not they have a call to a life of total commitment to the Canção Nova (New Song) Charism.

The minimum age to start the Vocation Path for Núcleo is 16 and the maximum age is 28 (Note: for those under 18, parental consent is required). To join the Núcleo, the candidate must be single, not dating and without children. For the Segundo Elo the minimum age is 16 and the maximum age is 60.

The Vocational Path with Canção Nova has a minimum duration of 2 years, which can be extended if there is a need, both on the part of the vocational team and the candidate. The Vocational Path starts from the Redão (big net).

The Redão is a meeting where those who feel they have a call to the Canção Nova charism can participate and live an experience where they can come to know Canção Nova better and discern their vocation.

The Building Up Project (Projeto Construindo) is an initiative of the Canção Nova Community which aims to accompany pre-candidates who contact us after the Redão (our first meeting and it always takes place at the beginning of the year) and to guide those who are not yet old enough to begin their Vocational Path.

We are a very diverse ecclesial family and within that family are those who sense the call to priesthood. After two years of vocational follow-up (pre-discipleship and discipleship), if the community believes the young men are suitable, they can ask to enter the seminary of the Canção Nova Community.

The Canção Nova Community Núcleo members are those who dedicate themselves full-time to the service of the mission, leaving home, work, studies, relationships, and so on to live in community.

The Segundo Elo members also live out their commitment to the Canção Nova Community, but they remain in their local reality. They live out the Canção Nova Charism in its totality, sanctifying the environment in which they are present and being the arms of Canção Nova where the Núcleo members cannot reach.

If you feel a call to the Canção Nova Community, it is important to have had the experience of a personal encounter with Jesus and to be involved in the activities of your parish, such as catechesis, pastoral work or movements. It is important to have lived the experience of Baptism in the Holy Spirit, experiencing the charismatic gifts. You must be studying or have completed high school. The candidate must live chastity and seek maturity and balance in their affections and sexuality. A life of prayer and cultivating a relationship with God is essential. To begin the Vocational Path to Núcleo, the person must not be in a committed dating or engagement relationship.

If you wish to know more about the Vocational Path to the Canção Nova Community, send us an email: vocacional@comunidadecancaonova.com

A life of integral dedication. This is how a Canção Nova consecrated member who has made his or her commitment in the community’s Núcleo lives. The Directory of Canção Nova (an internal document) outlines the Núcleo main characteristics:

The missionary activity of the members of the Núcleo takes place in the Canção Nova Missions and/or in partner organizations, such as the João Paulo II Foundation and other partnership institutions. Wherever they are, they are committed to evangelization, contributing to the spread of the Kingdom of God.

The Núcleo consecrated members who are single, celibate, seminarians or priests, live in community residences, either on the premises of the Community itself or in houses near each other in order to encourage fraternal coexistence. They are either female or male residences.

The Segundo Elo members are those who form an alliance around the Núcleo. They do not live in a full-time experience. They continue to live in their own residences. They are called to live the identity and mission of the Canção Nova Community in the ordinary conditions of their family, profession and social life.

The Community is formed by Núcleo and Segundo Elo members, two modes of commitment to the same Charism, which are experienced in different and complementary ways.

Speaking about the constitution of the Community, Monsignor Jonas teaches that “when God thought of Canção Nova, He thought of it with the people who would make it happen over time. God created us Canção Nova. We were thought of together. In the course of time, we would emerge one after the other but we were already conceived together. We were conceived in a single creative act. We were created Canção Nova, with Canção Nova or being and living the Canção Nova mission.”

It can be said, based on this statement by the founder, that in this single creative act God formed the Community as a whole, both Núcleo and Segundo Elo. These modes of commitment came to fulfillment each in their own time and with their own peculiar characteristics.

PAREI AQUI

The availability of the Núcleo consecrated members for relocation in the various states of life is due to their missionary commitment to the community, and in a spirit of obedience, they make themselves available for the apostolate in any situation or place. If there are concrete obstacles that could limit the relocation, they will be evaluated by the General Council.

The Núcleo consecrated members are responsible for the perpetuation of the Canção Nova charism, because our first call is to live in community and community living is the source of the charism. But perpetuation must be understood as zeal and fruitful continuity of the Charism so that it does not deviate from its original inspiration.

The specific field of action of Segundo Elo members is to live the Canção Nova Charism in the ordinary realities of their own lives, becoming an extension of the Canção Nova mission in the evangelization and sanctification of the world. Their missionary work can take place in the Mission Front closest to their home or in a more intense way, in the local Church, in the family, at work and in society;
Each member of this mode of commitment lives in their own home and supports themselves with their own resources.

The Segundo Elo members ensure their own family and economic maintenance through their work. Given the very nature of this mode of commitment, they have autonomy and responsibility in the administration of assets, based on evangelical criteria for their use.
Although relocations are not part of the Segundo Elo living, in some cases where the conditions are favorable, the member can present to Canção Nova Community General Council their availability to work on another Mission Front.

First and foremost, Canção Nova is a leaven to the community bringing life and transformation to the society in which it is present, a work of God for nowadays. Canção Nova’s rules of life are a school of holiness, forming New Men and Women for the New World. We are not an already perfect model of life, but a hard-working model of life, struggling day after day in this school of holiness to move from the old man to the new man.

We are formed in the workshop of life. It is a process that will take a lifetime to “bring out” and give birth to the new man, the new creature in the image of Jesus Christ, the New Man. To generate and give birth to a renewed community, the model of a new system of society, the living cell of a new humanity, of a new world to come.

Canção Nova is made for others. Its specific mission is to evangelize, to communicate Jesus Christ and the new life He brought us, through meetings and the media. This is something of our essence and identity. First and foremost, each of us is consecrated, which leads us to an austere, sober and humble life in order to spread the seed of a New Generation throughout the world. The Lord projects us into this reality that “a community can only flourish if it exists for a purpose outside itself”.

Our essential purpose is to be a Community of Evangelization for ourselves and for the others, having Jesus and Mary as our model. There are other keys as important as these I haven’t mentioned here, but we will discover them, little by little, as each of us allows ourselves to be penetrated by this wonderful mystery, the Canção Nova Charism.

If you have any more questions, contact us: vocacional@comunidadecancaonova.com