The death has occurred of Patrick O’Neill Castle Avenue, Thomastown, Kilkenny

Died on October 4, 2022

Pat passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, 4th October aged 84. He is predeceased by his son David, sister Crissie and his parents. He was much loved and will be sadly missed by his loving wife Peggy of 59 years, his children: Ann, John, Patrick, Ellen, Margaret, Paul, Caroline, Pamela, and Dermot, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers, sister, nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.

May Pat Rest in Peace.

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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