Ben Hennessy

Died on December 7, 2020

The death has occurred of Ben Hennessy
Tower House, Low Street, Thomastown, Kilkenny / Dunnamaggin, Kilkenny

The death has taken place of Ben Hennessy, Tower House, Low Street, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and formerly of Dunnamaggin, Co. Kilkenny, peacefully at his residence surrounded by his family. 7th December 2020. Predeceased by his wife Tess. Sadly missed by his son Michael, daughters Siobhan and Grainne, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters Maud and Bernie, brother Pat, daughter-in-law Trisha, son-in-law Tom, nieces and nephews, relatives and friends. Predeceased by his brother Leo and sister Carmel.

Leaving from his residence to arrive at the Church of the Assumption, Thomastown for Requiem Mass at 11am on Thursday 10th December following by burial in St Mary’s New Cemetery, Thomastown. Family flowers only please, donations to the Irish Cancer Society.

Requiem Mass can be viewed online at: thomastownparish.ie

Please adhere to Government guidelines regarding social distancing and wearing of masks. (Max 25 in Church).

MAY BEN REST IN PEACE

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Reflection

“The sun will be darkened.” How does Pope Francis say we can help bring light back to the darkened sun? And what can we learn from the fig tree?
Dear brothers and sisters, that is the word that makes hope blossom in the world and relieves the suffering of the poor: tenderness. Compassion that leads you to tenderness. We need to overcome our self-absorption, interior rigidity, which is the temptation nowadays, that of the “restorationists”, who want a Church completely orderly, completely rigid: this is not of the Holy Spirit.
We have to overcome this, in order to make hope blossom amid this rigidity. It is up to us to overcome the temptation to be concerned only about our own problems; we need to grow tender before the tragedies of our world, to share its pain. Like the tender leaves of a tree, we are called to absorb the pollution all around us and turn it into goodness.
It is useless to keep talking about problems, to argue and to be scandalized – all of us can do that. What we need to do is imitate the leaves that daily, imperceptibly, turn dirty air into clean air. Jesus wants us to be “converters” of goodness: people who breathe the same heavy air as everyone else, but respond to evil with good (cf. Rom 12:21). People who act: by breaking bread with the hungry, working for justice, lifting up the poor and restoring their dignity. As the Samaritan did.
Pope Francis