A little heads-up about the Four Corners festival coming up this week in locations across Belfast – and finishing up on Saturday lunchtime at a certain fabulous pop-up cafe…
You can find out more about the festival here – but in brief it’s the brainchild of two good chums of Dock-world – Fr Martin Magill, parish priest at St Oliver Plunkett Parish in Lenadoon, and Rev Steve Stockman of Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in south Belfast. Both had recently travelled to parts of Belfast with which they were unfamiliar, and had been astonished and transfixed by what they discovered there. They’re hoping the Four Corners events will entice people out of their own ‘corners’ of the city and into new places where they will encounter new perspectives, new ideas, and new friends.
(I can certainly identify – I well remember my first encounter with Fr Martin, in the wild woods above the Glen Rd – well outside my comfort zone, in a ‘corner’ of the city I didn’t know, but overwhelmed by the welcome and warmth – you can see my reaction in this very early Dock movie that’s still out there on YouTube!
You can find the full programme of Four Corners events here – and as I said it all finishes up in the Titanic Quarter on Saturday lunchtime, as people gather from simultaneous events in the North, South, East and West of city to share lunch and a closing act of worship in the shared spaces of the Titanic Quarter. Lunch at The Dock from 12:30ish, moving out to the Titanic slipway at 2ish – as always we’ll play it by ear on the day!)
Why not explore a new corner this week – and see you on Saturday!
Mass at the Rock – a sense of present, past and future, of holiness and hope and love. One church, one faith, one Lord. We can enjoy and celebrate difference once we get this perspective. Would have liked to hear the prayers!! but you can’t pray and video I suppose.