Margaret Manning

Died on March 12, 2020

The death has occurred of Margaret Manning (née O Keeffe)
Upper Kilmurry, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Margaret (predeceased by her husband Paddy, son Mick and sister Eleanor Casey) died peacefully on Thursday evening surrounded by her family. She is deeply regretted and sadly missed by her family, daughters Winnie, Triona, Mairead Kelly and Theresa Flynn; sons Pat, Andy, Noel, Gerry, Marty and David; sisters Bridget, Kitty, Masie and brother Martin; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, extended family, neighbours and friends.

May Margaret Rest in Peace.

Reposing in the Mercy Side Chapel of the Church of the Assumption from 5pm concluding with Rosary and Vigil Prayers at 6.45 pm. Requiem Mass at 2pm on Saturday followed by interment in St. Mary’s New Cemetery, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

In accordance with current Covid-19 Pandemic Guidelines the House and Funeral Mass are Private.

Donations, if desired, to the Parkinsons Association of Ireland

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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 Margaret Manning (née O Keeffe) Upper Kilmurry, Thomastown, Kilkenny

The death has occurred of Margaret Manning (née O Keeffe)
Upper Kilmurry, Thomastown, Kilkenny