Blog: La Roche d’Or

During the celebration of the Last Supper in March 2018, Father Roger Robert comments the washing of feet gospel. The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St John (13,1-15) “It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the time had come for...

Dear Friends, We have now been on general lockdown for almost three weeks. Every day we continue to receive the devastasting, heart wrenching and distressing bulletins of deaths, both in France and throughout the world. It is becoming ever more concerning,...

Roger introduces the Holy Week in April 1998... "I won't let you be orphans... I am with you forever. » Without Jesus’ life, our lives would have the consistency of bubbles of soap. They were beautiful at a certain point, for those who looked at them,...

Dear Friends, Many of you are asking us questions about when we might start to welcome people again in our homes and we do not want to leave you unanswered. You are of course aware of the news, and our desire would be that from the beginning of May the...

Dear friends, Tonight, the bell of the Roche d'Or will ring at length in unison with all those of the French churches. Tonight, we will put little lanterns on our window sills and light torches on our terraces. The bell (Marie-Antoinette is her name)...

We offer this text written by Florin in 1994, the day after the Estonia ferry-boat shipwreck in the Baltic sea which led to the death of 800 passengers... “Let us leave the surface! And without leaving the world…” The storm, the shipwreck, the earthquake,...

Letter written to Olivier, Danièle and the whole community of la Roche d'Or, to Roger, Françoise and the small community of Russey, I am happy to be writing to you at the heart of this unexpected experience... Since my return from the Roche d'Or last...

Dear Friends, It is an absolute necessity for us to reach you during this time of health crisis. I’m contacting you on behalf of the whole community who are currently confined within our three houses: la Roche d’Or, Fontanilles and also the Russey where...

At a time when our world is in the clutches of drama, this text from Florin Callerand, written in 1985, may be of profound comfort. The day after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, on 14th November 1985, unleashing enormous rivers of mud, Florin was...

Yesterday, in the latter part of the afternoon, beneath the clear skies and mild climate, I considered how lucky we are to be able to live out this state of national “confinement” in the springtime surroundings of almost eight hectares....for us alone......