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• In the garden of the Resurrection...

  12 April 2020 ( #Holy week, #These days..., #presentation of photos, #Video )

  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...

• Assumption: We are visited by Mary...

  15 August 2020 ( #Florin's texts, #Music, #presentation of photos )

  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...

• Ascension Day : " Victory over absence"

  21 May 2020 ( #presentation of photos, #Music, #Roger's texts )

  During a conference, Thursday May 13, 2010, Fr. Roger Robert unfolds the mystery of the Ascension of Jesus at the heart of our lives. What would I be without you, Jesus, who came to meet me? No one has to believe but the intensity of someone who comes...

• What does God do when mankind weeps?

  22 April 2020 ( #These days..., #presentation of photos, #Video )

  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...

• The night of God

  25 December 2020 ( #These days..., #presentation of photos )

  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,...

• She keeps watch in the middle of the night...

  06 December 2020 ( #These days..., #presentation of photos )

  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...

• Autumn...

  22 November 2020 ( #These days..., #presentation of photos )

  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...

• Pentecost: "What strength will hold us when we can no longer stand? "

  31 May 2020 ( #Roger's texts, #Music, #Video )

  Happy Whit Sunday! We know what human surges feel like and when we have the opportunity to emerge somewhat from what is conventional, or from what can be bleak in life, those moments pass as the days go by. On this day, we celebrate this surge of Joy...

• The eternal and joyful greeting: "May the Lord be with you." (1/3)

  04 May 2020 ( #Florin's texts, #Music, #Video )

  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...

• "Let the Holy Spirit do its job"

  31 May 2020 ( #These days... )

  "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 Festival of Light...in the ordinary every day.

  02 February 2021 ( #These days..., #presentation of photos )

  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...

• 70 years... "Continue, continue, keep going forward!"

  01 November 2020 ( #These days..., #Video )

  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...

• With you.... on the Annunciation day

  25 March 2020 ( #These days... )

  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)...

• Lent… To live with the taste of Eternity !

  17 February 2021 ( #These days... )

  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....

• We will have to wait a little longer!

  29 November 2020 ( #These days... )

  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...

• A focus on Jesus’ ‘Defender’ at the cross...

  11 April 2020 ( #Holy week, #Florin's texts, #Music )

  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...

• "I won't let you be orphans... I am with you forever."

  04 April 2020 ( #Roger's texts, #Music, #Holy week )

  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,...

• What kind of laser will God need to break through our steel walls?

  10 April 2020 ( #Holy week, #Roger's texts, #Music )

  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...

• Sensing the soul of Jesus, in front of his people, on the eve of Maundy Thursday

  08 April 2020 ( #Roger's texts, #Holy week, #Music )

  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...

• “Blessed are the meek: for they will inherit the land...”

  01 November 2020 ( #Florin's texts, #Music )

  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...

• Our joy to open our doors!

  14 June 2020 ( #Special letter, #Music )

  Dear friends, The time has come for me to write to you again as like many other countries in the world, our country is gradually emerging from a long lockdown. This unprecedented period has had a definite impact on our lives. Like many, we feel that "going...

• "Homage to a mother"

  07 June 2020 ( #Françoise's texts, #Music )

  PONTORMO La Visitation (1528) We are paying you a visit on the morning of what has become quite a commercial occasion: the celebration of Mother's Day. Far away from bouquets of flowers, cute drawings and other presents, we offer you this text of Françoise...

• “Happy are those who weep as they will be consoled...”

  22 April 2020 ( #Florin's texts, #Music )

  “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...

• REACHING YOU... on the celebration of St Joseph

  19 March 2020 ( #Special letter, #Music )

  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...

• The tying of Isaac: the whole-hearted trust between Abraham and Isaac, comes from heaven

  08 March 2021 ( #Roger's texts, #Music )

  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...