The death has occurred of James (Jimmy) Burris formerly of Dangan Terrace, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Died on June 1, 2024

Jimmy passed away peacefully on Saturday, 1st June, at Gowran Abbey Nursing Home, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, where he received exceptional care. Pre-deceased by his parents Jack and Bridie, his sister Mary, her husband John (Canavan) and sister-in-law Mary Prendergast. Deeply regretted and sadly missed by his loving family: brothers Maurice and John, sister-in-law Valerie, nephews Tom, Maurice, John and Óran, niece Áine, his best friend Kathleen, extended family, relatives and friends.

May Jimmy Rest in Peace.

Reposing in The Mercy Side Chapel of The Church of the Assumption, Thomastown, on Tuesday, 4th June, from 5pm to 7pm with Rosary and Vigil Prayers at 6.30pm. Requiem Mass on Wednesday at 11am in the Church of The Assumption, Thomastown, followed by interment in St. Mary’s New Cemetery, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny.

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Reflection

They did not accept the mystery (of the Incarnation). … They thought it was scandalous that the immensity of God should be revealed in the smallness of our flesh, that the Son of God should be the son of a carpenter, that the divine should be hidden in the human, that God should inhabit the face, the words, the gestures of a simple man. This is the scandal: the incarnation of God, his concreteness, his “daily life”. And God became concrete in a man, Jesus of Nazareth, he became a companion on the way, he made himself one of us. “You are one of us,” we can say to Jesus.
What a beautiful prayer! It is because one of us understands us, accompanies us, forgives us, loves us so much. An abstract, distant god is more comfortable, one that doesn’t get himself involved in situations and who accepts a faith that is far from life, from problems, from society. Or we would even like to believe in a ‘special effects’ god who does only exceptional things and always provokes strong emotions. Instead, brothers and sisters, God incarnated himself: God is humble, God is tender, God is hidden, he draws near to us, living the normality of our daily life.
Pope Francis