Bridget Reynolds

Died on December 3, 2020

The death has occurred of Bridget Reynolds (née Cooke)
36 The Belfry, Thomastown, Kilkenny

The death has taken place of Bridget Reynolds (Betty) née Cooke (Gortnalug, Mohill, Co. Leitrim), Dec 3rd 2020, peacefully, in the company of her family and the loving are of St Mary’s, St Columba’s Hospital Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Pre-deceased by her devoted husband Patrick (late of Garda Síochána). Will be sadly missed by her family, relatives and all who knew her. In line with current guidelines, a private gathering will take place in the coming days.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

A Service for Bridget will be held at Mount Jerome Crematorium, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, at 3.15pm on Monday.

Live streaming can be viewed by going to mountjerome.ie

Please adhere to Government advice regarding social distancing and wearing of masks, (Max 25 in church).

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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

The death has occurred of Bridget Reynolds (née Cooke) 36 The Belfry, Thomastown, Kilkenny

The death has occurred of Bridget Reynolds (née Cooke)
36 The Belfry, Thomastown, Kilkenny