The death has occurred of Jennifer (Jenny) Grace (née Teesdale) Jerpoint Church, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Died on May 31, 2024

Jennifer (Jenny) Grace, née Teesdale, Jerpoint Church, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

Jenny passed away peacefully, on Friday, 31st May 2024, surrounded by her loving family, in the exceptional care of doctors, nurses and staff in The Oak Ward, Waterford University Hospital, Waterford.

Pre-deceased by her parents Joe and Rita and her parents-in-law Jim and Molly.

Beloved wife of Jim and adored mother of Seán and Alana. Jenny will be sadly missed by her loving family, sister Emma, brothers Tommy, Henry and Joey, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, her many nieces and nephews, Jen’s very dear friend Sarah and many more close and special friends, her works colleagues and kind neighbours.

May Jenny Rest in Peace

Reposing in The Mercy Side Chapel, The Church of the Assumption, Thomastown, on Monday, 3rd June, from 5pm concluding with Vigil Prayers at 7.30pm.

Requiem Mass on Tuesday morning at 10.30am followed by burial in St. Mary’s New Cemetery, Thomastown.

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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