Clouds & Sun Blog by Dan Riley, OFM

Step Outside Into Nature

2012-01-23T05:01:44Z

Fr. Dan, Br. Joe and Br. Kevin participated in the "Nature and the Human Soul" conference this past weekend in New Mexico. Fr. Dan took this picture of the landscape.Sharing a reflection from a conference in New Mexico, Fr. Dan challenges us to listen to the earth as it calls us to explore, step outside and be light for the world. When you're indoors too much, go outdoors! Listen to his latest audio reflection on iTunes or on our website.

New Reflection: Engaging Each Other

2011-10-10T14:25:58Z

Fr. Dan shares a new audio reflection about engaging each other in today's world.

The image is where Fr. Dan shared this reflection from amid construction of a new hermitage on the Mountain with beautiful views of the fall foliage in the distance -- God's beauty at work.

-- Listen to the reflection on iTunes

-- Listen to the reflection on the Mountain website

Our Parched Hearts

2011-08-18T02:21:02Z

Fr. Dan Riley shares a reflection about our God who is living waters for places where we are parched. We invite you to take a few minutes to pray and reflect with Fr. Dan. The image is from tonight's sunset at Cape Cod, where Fr. Dan is spending time at the friars retreat home. Share your thoughts below.

Listen to Fr. Dan's "Our Parched Hearts" Reflection

Rise Together and Come Into the Field This Summer!

2011-06-19T01:52:42Z

Come and enjoy summertime on the Mountain! Let the Mountain be part of your summer! Let this “greening” join you in your home and workplace so that our moments in shade might witness to us that from out of our “tombs” and other times Christ is risen!

Fr. Dan's Easter Audio Reflection

2011-04-23T15:25:31Z

Fr. Dan Riley recorded an audio reflection for Easter on Holy Saturday morning. We invite you to take a few minutes to pray and reflect with Fr. Dan. Share your thoughts below.

Listen to Fr. Dan's Easter Audio Reflection

Fr. Dan's Holy Week Audio Reflection

2011-04-16T19:41:01Z

Fr. Dan Riley recorded an audio reflection about Holy Week. We invite you to take a few minutes to pray and reflect with Fr. Dan. Share your thoughts below. We will publish another reflection on Good Friday.

Listen to Fr. Dan's Holy Week Audio Reflection

Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus

2011-03-04T04:53:27Z

My friends, with our head, with our heart, even on our knees, this day we have entered our Lenten journey, walking in the “footsteps of Jesus Christ.” Easter already blazes before us in the light of the Risen One. What we long for is here. Each day, each moment, invites us to find the path that takes us not into preoccupation with ourselves, but with purposeful service of others.

Christmas Audio Message: "The Grace of God Has Appeared!"

2010-12-24T08:32:12Z

Fr. Dan has recorded an audio message this Christmas. Take about five minutes to listen to "The Grace of God Has Appeared; It's God's Choice and Our Choice."

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"Jesus Tells Us that the Spirit Comes Like a Wind"

2010-11-03T02:39:47Z

The wind roars, moving through the slim fingers of tree limbs swaying their smaller branches and its voice, the voice of this wind, lifts my head to attention. It is “louder” than the Scriptures which have been speaking to me from the page of my Bible. This voice now seems to be “seen” before me on the hill across the way, the trees have become the wind’s words. The hill asks me to be attentive to it as its own “Sacred text” reveals something of this morning.

"Possibly a hunger rose up in you today before your breakfast..."

2010-09-28T02:34:00Z

In the door came pesto made with home grown basil. Mike, who made it for us from his grandmother’s recipe of basil, included roasted and ground pine nuts with garlic - all of this accompanying his wonderful raviolis! A summertime dish with others near the end of the summer filled the table as we filled the Murphy’s kitchen.