Joe Challoner

Died on October 3, 2020

The death has occurred of Joe Challoner
Peggys Loaning, Banbridge, Down / Thomastown, Kilkenny

Challoner (Banbridge & formerly Thomastown, Kilkenny), died 3rd October 2020 peacefully at his home. Joe R.I.P. Late of 160 Peggys Loaning. Loving partner of Sharon and much loved father of Sabrina, Conner, Rachael and Aoife, brother of Michael and Francie and the late Johnny.

Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on his soul

A private family funeral will take place on Thursday in the Church of the Assumption Thomastown Co Kilkenny followed by burial in St Mary’s new Thomastown. Joe’s Requiem mass can be viewed by pressing on the link; https://www.facebook.com/barrowvision/live/

MAY JOE REST IN PEACE.

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

Deeply regretted by his sorrowing partner, children, son in law Dane, grandchildren Ben, Tagdh, Theo and Manus, brother, sister, brother in law, nephews, nieces, family circle and friends.

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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 Joe Challoner Peggys Loaning, Banbridge, Down / Thomastown, Kilkenny

The death has occurred of Joe Challoner
Peggys Loaning, Banbridge, Down / Thomastown, Kilkenny