these days...

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...

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...

"When you're in a tunnel, you can't see anything, but it is absurd to want the same landscape at tunnel’s exit as the one at its entrance. Let the Holy Spirit do its job." These words from Christian de Chergé take on a special meaning in this Whit Sunday...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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......