Teresa Doyle (nee Ryan)

Died on January 25, 2021

The death has taken place of Teresa Doyle (nee Ryan) on 25th January peacefully at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, late of Noreview Crescent and recently St Columba’s Hospital, Thomastown. Remembered with love and fondness by her sister Pauline, nephews Danny and David, daughter Helen, brothers Seán, Lucás and Liam, extended family and friends.

Due to current HSD/Government guidelines a private family funeral will take place at 11am on Friday 29th January at the Church of the Assumption Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny followed by burial in St Mary’s New cemetery Thomastown.

Teresa’s requiem mass can be viewed on line at

https://thomastownparish.ie/webcam

May her gentle soul rest in peace

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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