The death has occurred of Siobhan Ryan 3 Friars Hill Mews, Thomastown, Kilkenny / Kilmoganny, Kilkenny

Died on January 30, 2025

Unexpectedly, but peacefully at her home on Thursday, 30th January 2025.

Predeceased by her parents Tom and Carmel Ryan. Much loved, Siobhan will be forever missed in the the hearts of her family, son Feidhlim, brother John, sister Regina, sister-in-law Helena, niece Laura, Regina’s partner Lester, Feidhlim’s father Peter, aunt Joan, uncle Sean extended precious cousins in both Limerick and Nottingham, also Siobhan’s wide circle of friends, in particular Veronica and Jim, her friends from her camogie days, colleagues in Ferryhouse, and friends through her involvement in the arts.

May Siobhan Rest in Peace

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Reflection

What does Pope Francis say happens when we invite Jesus into our lifeboat even when we have nothing to offer him?
What do you think we will find when you go out into the deep, or as Pope Francis says, to the “open sea of the humanity of our time”? Starvation for food, ecojustice and racial justice, mercy? How can we be witnesses to goodness and mercy now in the sea of humanity of our time?
So what does the Lord do? He chooses to climb into our boat. He wants to proclaim the Gospel from there. It is precisely that empty boat, the symbol of our incapacity, that becomes Jesus’ “cathedra,” the pulpit from which he proclaims the Word. And this is what the Lord loves to do—the Lord is the Lord of surprises, of miracles in surprises—to climb into the boat of our lives when we have nothing to offer him; to enter our emptiness and fill it with his presence; to make use of our poverty to proclaim his richness, of our miseries to proclaim his mercy. …
Do we make available to him the little we have? Sometimes we feel unworthy of him because we are sinners. But this is an excuse that the Lord does not like, because it distances him from us! He is the God of closeness, of compassion, of tenderness, and he does not seek perfectionism. He seeks our welcome. He says to you too: “Let me get into the boat of your life.” “But Lord, look. ...” — “Like that, let me in, just as it is.” Let us think about this.
Pope Francis