Justin Duggan

Died on October 23, 2020

Duggan (Breagagh House, Kells Road, Kilkenny and formerly of Dangan Terrace, Thomastown) 23rd October 2020, peacefully, at home, Justin, sadly missed by his partner Bernadette Burke and their son Daniel, Sharon and Justin and their mother Pauline, brothers Paddy and Noel, sisters Ber and Valerie, grandchildren Daisy Burke, Saffron, Rian, Tristan and Heather, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, extended family, neighbours and friends.

May Justin Rest in Peace.

In accordance with current Government/HSE guidelines and in the interest of Public Health, a private family funeral will take place for Justin, with Requiem Mass celebrated on Monday morning October 26th, at 11am in the Church of the Assumption, Thomastown (max of 25 people in church) followed by burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Thomastown.

Requiem Mass will be livestreamed at www.thomastownparish.ie

Justin’s family would like to thank everybody for their understanding and support at this difficult time.

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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