florin's texts

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...