"Making All Things New"July 2015
In This Issue
Fr. Dan's Column
Summer Recipe
30th Anniversary Celebration
Mountain on Instagram

  Nature's Corner 

 

Scotch pines have no financial value for us, but they can show us how we can bend and be very creative and beautiful.

 

Peace, Br. Joe Kotula, ofm


RSVP to 30th Anniversary
 
Please join us at Mt. Irenaeus as we gather for 
the Mountain's 30th Anniversary Celebration!

Sept. 19-20, 2015

Saturday, Sept. 19
2 p.m. Memorial Celebration in the Labyrinth
 
3:30 p.m. Mass at Holy Peace Chapel followed by a dish-to-pass supper and concert

Sunday, Sept. 20
11 a.m. Mass followed by a dish-to-pass brunch.

 

 For more information, please contact the Mountain office at:



Annual Mountain Auction

Saturday, Nov. 7, at Premier Banquet Center

5 p.m. Mass

 6 p.m. Silent auction opens, followed by live, verbal auction


$60 per person includes cocktails, dinner buffet and desserts.

 The Auction is our largest fundraising gathering, raising more than $30,000 for the Mountain each year.

 Please consider attending, contributing a gift to the auction or hosting a gift-gathering party. 

 We welcome new products and gift certificates in all price ranges.

 

For gift ideas or more information, please visit our website, or contact the Mountain office at 716-375-2096 or mount.irenaeus@gmail.com


 

Our online auction will be held in November. Stay tuned for more details!

Evening of Re-Creation

Join us to rest and reflect this summer! Please call ahead to secure accommodations.

Our theme this summer is, "What is Franciscan About our Spirituality?"

 

The final Wednesday Evening of Re-Creation will be held July 22 (TONIGHT). Prayer begins at 5:15 p.m. with a dish-to-pass-supper at 6:30 and Mass at 7:45 p.m. All are welcome.

 

Please visit our webpage for more details.  

Fr. Dan's Podcasts





Connect with us!
Taste and See
 

"Taste and see the goodness of God!" That phrase, carved in a beam over our expansive dining table at the Mountain, speaks to every moment of the day, to each of us right now!

 

Relish this moment, my friend. Enjoy now, as summer unfolds in new colors that even suggest late summer. Try out Br. Kevin's tasty recipe! Bring a dish-to-pass to our 30th Anniversary celebration Sept. 19, which is also noted here!

 

We look forward to the company of young and old joining us on a summer journey to the Son! We travel together and rejoice in finding our way, hoping to bring others along with us on the way ... Read more.
An Early Summer Recipe
Br. Kevin shares this recipe for a quick and tasty vegetable side dish. 
 
This recipe can be made with sugar snap peas or baby bok choy.
Steamed Sugar Snap Peas or Baby Bok Choi

 

- Clean the peas or bok choy of any dirt or bruised areas.


- Gently steam them in a pan until tender but not soft.
 

- In the meantime, make a sauce of a few tablespoons of sesame oil, about half as much soy sauce, a small amount of brown sugar and about a half teaspoon of dry mustard. Whisk together and adjust to taste.
 

- Remove the peas or Bok Choi from the pan and place on a platter. 

 

- Pour the sauce over them just before serving. Enjoy!
 

Commemorating 30 Years With What We Do Best
Br. Kevin Kriso, ofm, describes the planned 30th Anniversary celebration in September.

 

A wonderful group of Mountain friends and Mountain residents have been contemplating the question, "How do you celebrate 30 years of blessing and the gift of helping to join with Jesus Christ in making all things new?"

 

Our 30th Anniversary planning group wanted to do right by this momentous occasion. We thought big, and we thought small. We did not go so far as to suggest blaring horns, having a parade or setting off fireworks. In the end we decided to do what we do best and what has worked for the last 30 years with a few special touches, to bring back old friends and to make some new ones as well.

 

Thirty years ago, some land was purchased in Allegany County on a wooded hilltop. This capped a dream of Fr. Dan Riley and many others to have a place and a community steeped in prayer and hospitality. Over the years, we have increased our outreach to the community, inviting others to join us in our Gospel manner of life and ministry and adding more land, buildings, hermitages, trails, gardens, a common house and a chapel ... Read more.

 
Celebrating 30 Years
Each month through September, we'll feature photos from each decade of the Mountain's history to commemorate its 30th Anniversary. This month we've included photos from the 2000s (below). For more photos, a podcast and a graphic timeline of the Mountain's history, visit mounti.com.



Fr. Dan Riley, ofm, celebrates Mass with students in 2000.

Fr. Dan Hurley, ofm, cutting up some of his famous pies.

Enjoying a concert in the Main House for the Mountain's 25th Anniversary.

The Mountain on Instagram
Enjoy this early-July post from Fr. Dan. For more, follow @mtirenaeus.

 BACK HOME ON THE Mountain, sharing a meal with my brothers and others here...walking out on the land.. pausing for a moment by this statue of St. Francis... '"What do I share with this Holy man? ..The one who unintentionally began with brothers and sisters a movement that's still MOVING".. Still trying touching and changing my heart and many others,.. helping us HEAR THE GOOD NEWS that LOVE has "Won"! So stop all wars, especially in homes and friendships." I stop longer now... I believe- I wished I better lived this...I feel it HERE and in the HOMES I'M IN...Even when it may not be readily apparent! As St Paul said; "LOVE conquers all!"
...these flowers came from Long Island years ago. From the home of Kevin Dooley's parents in Garden City. They and many other living beings HERE.. remind me of living beings ELSEWHERE... And I feel called to LIVE and BE HERE here and these other "WHERES!".. Else I won't be sharing the good news is this funny little figure - an attempt to picture St. Francis of Assisi - would let us know about him.
Here,..but traveling "Here and Yon," he often was in the trees with folks and in the valley and piazzas of his day. ~Probably hanging out in homes and courtyards and then off-again into fields.. in places where they worked and preached the Good News of Jesus Christ. - So I'm off again to other people ~ another HOME and friends and family. Amazed and glad, I go even though I want to stay here. ST FRANCIS, watch over and watch out for all of your sisters and brothers as they travel this holiday weekend. May their joy be deep, their happiness real in their sense of freedom on the fourth, freedom they wish to share with others! AMEN! Dan ofm

Contact Us

 

Mt. Irenaeus
P.O. Box 100
West Clarksville, NY 14786
585-973-2470