The death has occurred of Margaret (Madge) Grace (née Greene) Grennan, Thomastown, Kilkenny / Bennettsbridge, Kilkenny

Died on October 16, 2024

The death has taken place of Margaret (Madge) Grace nee Greene, Grennan, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and formerly of Barronsland, Bennettsbridge, Co Kilkenny. Peacefully at Archesrath Nursing Home surrounded by her loving family on 16th Oct 2024. Predeceased by her sister Maureen, Sadly missed by her husband Percy, Sons Liam. Brendan and Eugene, Grandchildren Cillian, Lisa, Lily, Megan and Rowan, daughter-in-law Shirley, brother Michael and extended family, neighbours and friends.

MAY MADGE REST IN PEACE

Reposing in the Mercy side chapel, Church of the Assumption, Thomastown, from 4,30pm to 7pm on Thursday 17th Oct 2024, pausing for rosary and vigil prayers at 6pm. Requiem mass on Friday at 11am in the main Church 18th Oct 2024, 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