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The day after the Estonia shipwreck, 800 dead...
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,...
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Blessed are the hungry and thirsty for justice: they will be satisfied.
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...
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Choose to speak the good...
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,...
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The Blessing of Poverty in the Virgin Mary’s life experience...
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...
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God was born as a baby!
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...
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“Oh, come!”
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...
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Creating a space to welcome the other...
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....
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Mary, a poor woman of Yahweh, haunted by the salvation of the world...
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...
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The Word: the fire that keeps us awake and makes us see!
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....
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Keep the flame of desire alive!
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...
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“My royalty is not of this world.”
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....
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Easter: Mary Magdalene opens herself up to the closeness of a new Presence...
Mary Magdalene is the first one to arrives at the tomb on Easter morning and she goes to tell John and Peter’s who then come and see for themselves that the tomb is empty, John, once there begins to discover that, if the tomb is empty, it is that Christ...
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Blessing!
“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,...
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The eternal and joyful greeting: "May the Lord be with you." (2/3)
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...
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Cultivating the inner life
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...
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From Fontanilles...
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...
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Information and new features for La Roche d’Or
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...
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The River of Mud in Columbia: “Mummy, I want to live!”
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...
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From La Roche d’Or park
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......
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On the eve of Palm Sunday
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,...
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On the way to Bethlehem...
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,"...
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A bit of encouragement to see it through...
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...
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“The Word of God cannot be chained!”
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...
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Annette's passing on...
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...
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The eternal and joyful greeting: "May the Lord be with you." (3/3)
To end this meditation, all that remains is to bring it to the maximum splendour of evangelical revelation and to properly understand that God is not Creator as an act of charity but because of a need within his eternal heart. He can but create. Because,...
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