The death has occurred of Kathleen (Kay ) Minogue (née Heneberry) Coppenagh, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Died on June 7, 2024

Kay died peacefully on 7th June 2024 at home. Kay was recently deceased by her loving husband Jim and Predeceased by her brother Jimmy. Kay is deeply missed by her loving daughter Alice, son-in-law Mick Flynn, adored grandchildren Caoimhe, Sean and Zoe, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews and a wide group of relatives, neighbours and friends.

Kay and Jim’s family would like to thank the local public health nursing care team, Kilkenny Home Care team and the fabulous group of carers for all their support and kindness.

MAY KAY REST IN PEACE. Reposing at her residence (R95AW61) from 4pm on Thursday with vigil prayers at 7pm. (In the interest of safety a one way system will operate with thoes wishing to call please enter from Clossgregg and exit from Mongmacody Cross). Arriving for 11am requiem mass on Friday in the Church of the Assumption, Thomastown followed by burial in Calvery Cemetery Graiguenamanagh.

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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