Michael Treacy

Died on September 21, 2020

The death has occurred of Michael TREACY, Ballinamona, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Treacy, Michael (Ballinamona, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny) – 21st September 2020 (peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving family). Loving husband of the late Sheila and much loved father of Brendan, Kevin and Michelle and the late Majella. Sadly missed by his loving sisters and brothers, Kathleen, Denis (RIP) , Sr. Margaret, Sr. Meave, Sr. Joan, Sheila, Ann, Seamus, Johnny, Tommy and Pat, together with his daughters in law Jane and Claire and son in law Stephen, beloved grandchildren Darragh, Caoimhe, Ronan and Sadie, brothers and sisters in law, nephews, nieces, godchildren and numerous other family members, beloved friends and neighbours.

May Michael Rest in Peace

In keeping with current government/HSE guidelines regarding public gatherings, Requiem Mass for Michael will be celebrated on Wednesday (23rd Sept) at 2.30pm in the Church of the Assumption, Thomastown for family and close friends. Funeral afterwards to St. Mary’s New Cemetery, Thomastown. Flowers welcome but a donation, if desired can be made to the Carlow Kilkenny Homecare Team, who gave such loving and excellent care to Michael over the course of his illness.

Michael’s Requiem Mass can be viewed online by clicking on this link

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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