Blog: La Roche d’Or

To end this meditation, all that remains is to bring it to the maximum splendour of evangelical revelation and to properly understand that God is not Creator as an act of charity but because of a need within his eternal heart. He can but create. Because,...

Part II of Florin Callerand’s text “May the Lord be with you.” Some might say that this isn’t always obvious. We must reply, to ourselves and to others: “If it feels like that it is because of discretion, God does not treat us as if we were objects that...

Whist writing his long letters to thank retreat goers, Florin Callerand liked to write some "Meditations over the Gospel." It was like a satchel for an everyday journey, full of food to enjoy along the way, an evangelical water bottle to quench the thirst...

The Passover Week ended with the same silence and wonders of the gardens as in the Holy Week. The Easter Hallelujah continues to resonate throughout the park in the thousands of enthusiastic birdsongs, this powerful choir answering in echo to the singing...

“Happy are those who weep as they will be consoled...” (extracts) The first word of the revelation that comes to heart when hearing Jesus talk this way is written by Saint Paul, in the 8th chapter of the Epistle to Romans. F or the creation waits in eager...

Dear friends, Today, the 16th of April, is the feast of an 18th century saint who has the distinction of being a “square peg” ... which I always found to my liking! His name was Benedict-Joseph Labre. So out of the box was he, that he could not stay in...

In the Gospel, Easter morning bursts out in the heart of a garden, and such a place it is for the new meeting with the resurrected: a gardener in the eyes of Mary-Magdalene! Towards the end of this somewhat strange and incredible Holy Week we have all...

Mary Magdalene is the first one to arrives at the tomb on Easter morning and she goes to tell John and Peter’s who then come and see for themselves that the tomb is empty, John, once there begins to discover that, if the tomb is empty, it is that Christ...

We offer to you the following extract from the book, "Mary, my secret" by Florin Callerand. In the foreword of this work, Francoise Porte wrote: "Florin expresses what Mary "feels within" in such simple terms that it feels like it was confined to him...

Good Friday: During the celebration of the Passion in April 2017, Father Roger Robert comments the « Suffering servant » (Isaiah 52.13 to 53.12) This text is one of the most enigmatic texts of the Bible. The Jews don’t fully understand its meaning, except...