The Canção Nova Community is a charismatic Catholic Community founded by Msgr. Jonas Abib and recognized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as an International Private Association of the faithful, endowed with legal personality (cf. CIC, can. 298-311; 321-329) and has its headquarters in the city of Cachoeira Paulista (SP), Diocese of Lorena, São Paulo – Brazil.

The term “Canção Nova” corresponds to the 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 World. The Canção Nova Community is committed to being this song for the Church and for the world. The Canção Nova Community aims to be, within the Church, the “House of Mary,” understanding this expression in the biblical sense: the descendants of Mary, the race of Mary, his Mother and educator.

The Canção Nova Community is an associative body of Christian faithful made up of women and men; young people and adults; single, married, and celibate people, priests, and deacons, who take on the most radical experience of consecration to God made in Baptism and Confirmation, in function of the apostolate, in a life in community, according to the state of each one. This experience is inspired by the practice of the evangelical counsels, adapted to secular life.

The basis of the Canção Nova Community is the Gospel: living and communicating it in its entirety, in the power of the Holy Spirit, while awaiting and hastening the glorious coming of the Lord (cf. 2 Peter 3:12), must be the commitment of all members. Canção Nova is called to be the House of Mercy.

The Canção Nova Community is a charismatic Catholic Community founded by Msgr. Jonas Abib and recognized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as an International Private Association of the faithful, endowed with legal personality (cf. CIC, can. 298-311; 321-329) and has its headquarters in the city of Cachoeira Paulista (SP), Diocese of Lorena, São Paulo – Brazil.

The term “Canção Nova” corresponds to the 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 World. The Canção Nova Community is committed to being this song for the Church and for the world. The Canção Nova Community aims to be, within the Church, the “House of Mary,” understanding this expression in the biblical sense: the descendants of Mary, the race of Mary, his Mother and educator.

The Canção Nova Community is an associative body of Christian faithful made up of women and men; young people and adults; single, married, and celibate people, priests, and deacons, who take on the most radical experience of consecration to God made in Baptism and Confirmation, in function of the apostolate, in a life in community, according to the state of each one. This experience is inspired by the practice of the evangelical counsels, adapted to secular life.

The basis of the Canção Nova Community is the Gospel: living and communicating it in its entirety, in the power of the Holy Spirit, while awaiting and hastening the glorious coming of the Lord (cf. 2 Peter 3:12), must be the commitment of all members. Canção Nova is called to be the House of Mercy.

The mission of Canção Nova Community is to evangelize, communicate Jesus and the new life He brought, through encounters and, preferentially but not exclusively, through the media, to form new men for the New World.

These are members who dedicate themselves to the apostolate as their main activity, committed full-time to the life and activities of Canção Nova, ensuring the maintenance of the Charism.

These are those who form an alliance around the Núcleo, do not live in full-time dedication, and continue to reside in their own homes. They are called to live the identity and mission of the Canção Nova Community in the ordinary conditions of their own family, profession, and social life.

Monsignor Jonas Abib (1936 – 2022)
Founder of Canção Nova Community

Luzia Santiago
Co-Founder of Canção Nova Community

Wellington Silva Jardim
Co-Founder of Canção Nova Community