The death has occurred of James (Jim) Minogue Coppenagh, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Died on May 17, 2024

The death has taken place of James (Jim) Minogue, Coppenagh, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, peacefully at home, with his loving family, 17th May 2024. Predeceased by his sister Mary-Anne and brother Mick. Sadly missed by his loving wife Kathleen, daughter Alice, son-in-law Mick Flynn, adored grandchildren Caoimhe, Sean and Zoe, his sister Kathleen O Sullivan, brothers Eddie and John, nieces and nephews, a wide group of neighbours and friends and a wonderful team of carers.

MAY JIM REST IN PEACE

Reposing at the Mercy Side Chapel, Church of the Assumption, Thomastown, from 5.15pm on Sunday with rosary and vigil prayers in the main Chapel at 7pm. Requiem Mass on Monday at 11am followed by burial in Calvery Cemetery, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny.

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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