Schools

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Primary Schools

St. Mary’s National School

Principal: Mr Pádhraic Moran
St Mary’s National School, Maudlin Street, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Phone: 056 772 4290
Email: stmarys1ttown@eircom.net
Website: St. Mary’s National School

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Secondary Schools

Grennan College

Principal: Mr. Sean Og O’Sullivan
Deputy Principal: Ms. Miriam O’Donnell
Grennan College, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Phone: 056 772 4112
Email: info@grennancollege.ie
Website: Grennan College

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Other Schools

Grennan Mill Crafts School

Grennan Mill Craft School, Island Mill
Thomastown, Co.Kilkenny
Ireland, R95 NN8X
Phone: 056 776 3321
Email: info@grennanmillcraftschool.com
Website: Grennan Mill Crafts School

Grennan Mill Craft School has been a dedicated craft and design centre since 1981 offering full-time courses, evening classes, short…

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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