This week’s featured organisation from the 4 Corners Networking events is the Music Unites Project in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.
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Category: Music and Spirituality
Fr Martin Magill’s Ecumenical Tithing: Shankill Methodist – Q&A with Rev Heather Morris
This week Fr Martin Magill practised his ecumenical tithing at Shankill Methodist, a congregation he had not visited for some time. The congregation offered Fr Magill a warm welcome and let him know he had been missed. The service included … Read more...
Invitation to Uganda Day, 3 June – Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Canonisation of the Uganda Martyrs
The Uganda Association of Northern Ireland, through the secretary Fr Charles Lwanga Kaweesi, welcomes all friends of Uganda and Africa to Uganda Day Celebrations on 3 June, starting at 4 pm at St Mary’s University College in Belfast. This year … Read more...
Peter Rollins’ Holy Ghosts Festival in Belfast – Fringe Events 28-30 April
It is less than a week till Peter Rollins’ Holy Ghosts event (28-30 April) starts in Belfast. Billed as a ‘boutique arts and theo-poetic event,’ the full programme includes day and evening events (click here for further information, including … Read more...
Fr Martin Magill’s Ecumenical Tithing: Choral Evensong in St George’s, High Street
This Sunday Fr Martin Magill visited choral evensong at St George’s, High Street, for his ecumenical tithing. He describes a restful and moving service where he had a chance to renew an old acquaintance.
St George’s is always worth … Read more...
Finding Peace at Christmas in the Thin Places: Christmas Day Sermon from Pastor Roger Newton
If you found yourself in a church building this Christmas, what message did you hear?
“The sermon was the best part of the service this year,” my sister-in-law said after mass at Clonard Monastery on Christmas Day, and I agreed. … Read more...
Fr Martin Magill’s Ecumenical Tithing: Visiting the Pope’s Methodist Neighbours
This week’s ecumenical tithing takes Fr Martin Magill further afield, as while on holidays in Rome he visits a Methodist congregation.
Fr Martin Magill’s Ecumenical Tithing: Methodist Church Rome
This weekend I was in Rome on holiday to celebrate 25 … Read more...
Launch of Pyrotheology Website – Every Bush is Burning
A new website that explains the burgeoning theological project ‘pyrotheology,’ and how Christian collectives might enact this through ‘transformance art,’ has been unveiled.
Pyrotheology has come to be associated with the Ikon collective in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the writings … Read more...
Celtic Music as a Path to Reconciliation? Guest Post by Roger Newton (Part 2)
Last week marked the beginning of a series of guest posts by Roger Newton on “Celtic Music as a Path to Reconciliation?” In this second post Newton, a self-described semi-retired, music-loving Lutheran pastor, explores the connections between nature and Celtic … Read more...
Celtic Music as a Path to Reconciliation?: Guest Post by Roger Newton (Part 1)
Last week I started a series of blogs about the Year of Faith. I wrote that I hoped that the Year of Faith would play a role in pushing the Catholic Church further towards the vision of Vatican II, … Read more...