Michæl McFarland Campbell – Page 2 – Always telling the story

Good news travels fast: let’s spread the news of joy

Some thoughts for the First Sunday of Easter. Readings: Acts 10:34, 37–43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22–23 ℟ v.24; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9 ℣ Christ is risen, alleluia! ℟ The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia! Joy is the best response We were created for joy. We never hear someone say, You know, this whole joy thing […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 5 months agoJuly 23, 2022

Blogging Professional Development

Keeping my knowledge and skills up to date

Every year, I work hard to keep my knowledge and skills up to date with CPD. At the end of March 2022, I had completed a year of CPD with CIPR — the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. This means that I maintain my Accredited PR Practitioner status, but more importantly it illustrates that I […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 6 months ago

Blogging

Getting back to tracking fitness…

We’re all surrounded by advertisements about this app, or some other device that can help make our lives better. Sometimes we get absorbed by the app or the device to the point that it seems that it is the most important thing in our lives. That is what started to happen with my Fitbit last […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 6 months agoMarch 22, 2022

Sunday Relections

The constant battle to stop our frustration

Some reflections on the readings at Mass on the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C), 1 Samuel 26:2, 7–9, 12–13, 22–23; Psalm 103:1–4, 8, 10, 12–13; 1 Corinthians 15:45–49; St Luke 6:27–38. Read them here. Our in-built identity crisis Each one of us has an in-built identity crisis. It is a constant thing. It’s […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 7 months agoJuly 23, 2022

Health Scouting

Not being colour-blind, blue and red should not be that easy to muddle up…

All haemodialysis machines have tubes that take blood away from the body of the patient and tubes that return the blood after it has been cleaned. For ease of identification, many machines clearly mark these as red (from the body (or arterial)) and blue (return to the body (or venous)). It’s a simple way to […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 7 months agoFebruary 15, 2022

Sunday Relections

The Resurrection is a reason for sacrifice in our lives

Reflection on the readings for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C): Jeremiah 17:5–8; Psalm 1:1-4,6; 1 Corinthians 15:12, 16–20; St Luke 6:17, 20–26 The Resurrection makes all the difference St Paul has almost had it with the Christians in Corinth. He spent the first fourteen chapters of this epistle addressing their weak Church […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 8 months agoJuly 23, 2022

Sunday Relections

Duc in altum: Put out into the deep

A reflection on the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time in Year C. Gospel: St Luke 5:1–11. The Command of Christ has the power to revolutionize our lives In the Gospel reading for today, we hear about the first day of the rest of the life of the humble Galilean fisherman, Simon Peter, […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 8 months agoJuly 23, 2022

Blogging Christianity Music

When to the temple Mary went: the music from my youth

That first piece, When to the temple Mary went by Johannes Eccard was a favourite of mine when I sang in the parish choir of my home parish church of St Patrick, Kilconriola (Ballymena). This evening, I did not expect to be listening to it, let alone writing a blog piece about the music at […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 9 months ago

Blogging Christianity

Do gay people celebrate Christmas?

Having not yet sourced a new emporium from which to acquire the food necessary to feed the three felines with whom I share the house with Andrew, I returned to our old town to buy the requisite bag of cat food from the veterinary surgeon there as we have for the last three-and-a-half years. As […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 9 months ago

Blogging

Christmas wishes 2021

What a year it has been for all of us! The ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic has ensured that we have not strayed much further than Dublin or Port Laoise in the last twelve months. We did have a one-day excursion to Cork city in the summer and we are sure that we will be returning to visit that city more when […]

Michæl McFarland Campbell 9 months ago