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    <title><![CDATA[A bit of encouragement to see it through...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:34:32 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danièle Valès]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The tying of Isaac: the whole-hearted trust between Abraham and Isaac, comes from heaven]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:24:10 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Roger Robert]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lent… To live with the taste of Eternity !]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Olivier Sournia]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Creating a space to welcome the other...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Roger Robert]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Festival of Light...in the ordinary every day.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danièle Valès]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mary, a poor woman of Yahweh, haunted by the salvation of the world...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[“The Word of God cannot be chained!”]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Olivier Sournia]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Word: the fire that keeps us awake and makes us see!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blessing!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[“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,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danièle Valès]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Choose to speak the good...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Roger Robert]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The night of God]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Olivier Sournia]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[God was born as a baby!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Roger Robert]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[“Oh, come!”]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[On the way to Bethlehem...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,"... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danièle Valès]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blessed are the hungry and thirsty for justice: they will be satisfied.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Blessing of Poverty in the Virgin Mary’s life experience...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[She keeps watch in the middle of the night...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabelle Peillon]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[We will have to wait a little longer!]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/11/we-will-have-to-wait-a-little-longer.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:01:56 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danièle Valès]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Keep the flame of desire alive!]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/11/keep-the-flame-of-desire-alive.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:55:28 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Autumn...]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/11/autumn.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 09:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Olivier Sournia]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[“My royalty is not of this world.”]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 09:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[During his Passion, in response to Pontius Pilate asking him, “So you’re a king?” Jesus said, “My royalty is not of this world.” We name kings and queens those who have a kingdom and who in service to a country, exert their power over its institutions.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Roger Robert]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[70 years... &quot;Continue, continue, keep going forward!&quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/11/70-years.continue-continue-keep-going-forward.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 12:19:04 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The time we spend at Roche d’Or makes us feel like we are on a train that’s had the emergency brake pulled right in the middle of a journey and everyone has been asked to get off. That’s more or less what happened last Wednesday evening when lockdown... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Danièle Valès]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[“Blessed are the meek: for they will inherit the land...”]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/11/blessed-are-the-meek-for-they-will-inherit-the-land.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 10:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here we have, at the outset, a singular revelation on the profound nature of God and this breath that we call emphatic and powerful, which we use to represent the wind of Pentecost. You have to understand that it is this power, the strength, of dove’s... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[F. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Annette's passing on...]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/10/annette-s-passing-on.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:25:21 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, We are coming to you today to share a news that affects us all: Annette made her big passing through on Thursday 24th September 2020 late in the morning. She caught up with the community in Heaven, Florin, Odile and Janine, Catherine and... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[the community]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Assumption: We are visited by Mary...]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://blog-en.rochedor.fr/2020/08/assumption-we-are-visited-by-mary.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:37:10 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the heart of the summer shines the feast of the Assumption, a celebration of the mystery which is deeply rooted in the Community since it began. Thus, we wish you a very beautiful feast by offering you today, a homily from Florin Callerand dated August... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Florin Callerand]]></dc:creator>
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