The death has occurred of Harry Cullen Beaumont, Dublin / Thomastown, Kilkenny

Died on April 30, 2024

Cullen Harry (Beaumont, Dublin, late of Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and Whitehall Columcilles GAA Club) April 30th 2024, peacefully at St. Francis Hospice, Blanchardstown, surrounded by his loving family. Sadly missed by his loving wife Joan, his three sons the late Brian; Andy and Paul, daughters-in-law Dympna, Niamh and Joanne, his adored grandchildren Michael, John, Aishling, Kerry, Katie, James, Cian, Faye and Robbie, his brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, extended family, friends, clubmates and neighbours.

May he rest in peace.

Reposing in Lanigan’s Funeral Home, 21 Beaumont Road on Friday 3rd May from 5pm to 7pm. Removal on Saturday morning, 4th May, to the Church of the Holy Child, Whitehall arriving for Funeral Mass at 11am, followed by Cremation in Dardistown Crematorium. Family flowers only please. Donations, if desired, to St. Francis Hospice, Blanchardstown.

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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