Join Fr. Dan Riley and St. Bonaventure students for a Mountain on the Road – Informal conversation, prayer and reflection, celebrating our Franciscan Heritage.  Adult family members & friends are welcome.

Fr. Dan will use his newly published book Franciscan Lectio:  Reading the World Through the Living Word to lead into reflection and conversation.  Come and take the opportunity to congratulate Fr. Dan on his long-awaited debut as a published author.

Join us on November 3 at 6:30 p.m. at:

St James Church
147 Main St.
Johnson City, NY

If you own Franciscan Lectio:  Reading the World Through the Living Word, Fr. Dan would be happy to sign it after the presentation and reflection!  Copies are getting scarce, but the publisher has already gone into a second printing!

Please let us know that you are coming to join us by signing up on the SBU Alumni page HERE. 

Franciscan Lectio is for all those who are on a spiritual journey who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and become more attentive and present. In Franciscan Lectio, Fr. Dan comes alongside us in our own encounters with lectio and inspires our spiritual imagination through story, art, poetry, nature, Franciscan mysticism and Scripture — helping us to see that all of life is unitive and sacred.

Fr. Dan takes us on a journey with him as he became a friar and ministered at St. Bonaventure University for many years, while also founding Mt. Irenaeus. Sharing his own experiences and the Franciscan heritage, he opens for us a journey influenced by, among others, Thomas Merton, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi who offer us a practice of “gazing, considering, contemplating and acting” – living the Good News today filled with a sense of beauty and hope.