Blog: La Roche d’Or

Dear friends, "Here it is, the night of God, from which the day will be born like a fire" ... Those of you who have already participated in our Christmas liturgies will recognize here the words from our nocturnal celebration opening song. So, at last,...

This afternoon, while preparing myself for the vigil of Christmas, two words rose from within me: The first isn’t obviously linked to Christmas. One day when Jesus was speaking in the courtyard of the Temple of Jerusalem. Soldiers were sent to arrest...

On this 4th Sunday of Advent, the next part of Florin Callerand’s text on “The Blessing of hunger and thirst for justice,” which we shared the first part of last Sunday, will nourish our lives with joy as we head towards Christmas. Where can we draw strength...

This year the path to Bethlehem is not sparkling with the thousand lights from our dreams and our festive plans. The latest government announcements tell us that the night is not yet over and messages everywhere call out: "Stay home," "Protect yourself,"...

There is an essential common element that passes like a current from one beatitude to another. It passes so well, we could say each one contains them all. The essential common element of all beatitudes is that the time for liberation arrived because the...

It is impossible to understand the outburst of happiness which sprang from Jesus’ lips when proclaiming the blessing of evangelical poverty, without linking it with another outburst of happiness which came from Mary’s lips during her ‘Magnificat’ when...

A few days ago, in Fontanilles, we were greeted at sunrise by a magnificent and deeply moving show. In front of the house, radiant under the sun , the Melia was covered with dew beads . A thousand stars were gathered on this tree, appearing to us like...

Since Tuesday evening we have known that we weren’t going to open before the end of January, assuming that all is well and a third wave does not arrive to pin us to the ground like those plane stuck on the runway. So we will celebrate Christmas as we...

Have you understood what the standard phrase, “God, one world without end” means? Is it that God always moves forward and is never satisfied with the age that has passed, that Got is always looking towards what’s new? Now, we are at the end of the 20th...

Dear Friends, The last few leaves are clinging to our trees by a thread before being swept away by the damp November breeze. This part of nature’s cycle leaves behind an inevitable, luminous effect on our forests and orchards, and then for a few months...