Blog: La Roche d’Or

Last Sunday, the liturgy offered this text from Genesis which we usually call “Abraham’s sacrifice” and which our Jewish brothers prefer to think of as “The tying of Isaac.” Those among you who have followed our retreats in Fontanilles on the Patriarchs...

I’m going to talk about this wonderful great text which, nonetheless, has done so much harm. (Genesis 22, 1-18) I remember when I was young, having taken spirituality classes where we spoke of a God who could ask us to sacrifice things we held dear. “Look...

Dear Friends, A year ago... On the eve of our retreat opening the period of Lent, we decided to cancel the event following the visit in our home from a couple coming back from the North of Italy which was deeply affected by the first wave of this pandemic....

The events that took place during Jesus Christ’s life on earth are also the events of our lives. He took everything from our existence, from our human condition with all that it entailed, including death and all forms of death before we definitively die....

Three days ago, we watched the troubling film, “Legacy“ by Yann Arthus-Bertrand together, awful yet magnificent images reminded us that viruses are not our only enemies...”This is not a disaster movie, it's a film that tells the wonderful story of man...

Mary led an ordinary life. And, it is in this ordinary existence that, with the influence of the spirit, she was able to access the extraordinary of this same ordinary existence; we could simply say that Mary did not miss the true sense of what was given...

Dear Friends, Some of you will have already received a letter from us to tell you about the cancellation of retreats for the first part of 2021. Just this once, the health crisis has forced us to start the year as we finished the last: by advancing step...

Luke 12,35-38 Jesus told his disciples: “Be dressed and ready for service and keep your lamps burning. Like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him....

“The Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord make his face shine upon you, and take you into his grace! The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace." (Numbers 6:24-26) It is with this blessing that we celebrate the passing of the new year,...

The wishes we make to one another for the new year speak of our desire to make the other happy. When we say kind words, we make the good come out of us and this is a strength for continuing to move forwards! God speaks too, and he only speaks the good,...