Death of Columban Sister Mary Clement Sheehy [post updated]
Submitted by FatherSean on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 15:58.
Columban Sister Mary Clement Sheehy died yesterday in Ireland. She had spent nearly all of her missionary life in the Philippines. Sister Clement taught in St Columban College, Lingayen, Pangasinan, and spent her latter years in the Philippines in Ozamiz City. After she 'retired' she became involved in the education of deaf children. She went home to Ireland in 2005.
Sister Clement was the sister of the late Fr Patrick Sheehy, a Columban who served in China, Japan, Australia and Ireland and who died in 1999.
I will post more in this gentle woman later. May she rest in peace.
15 July 2010 - From the website of the Columban Sisters:
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Sister M Clement Sheehy enters Eternal Life |
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Sister Clement passed away unexpectedly early Tuesday morning, 13 July 2010, in Loughlinstown Hospital, County Wicklow, Ireland.
May she rest in peace The removal from the Sisters' Infirmary to the Convent chapel will take place on Thursday, 15 July at 5. 30pm. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11.30 am on Friday, 16 July, in the Convent chapel followed by the burial in the Convent cemetery.
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Sister Clement with one of the children in the Community of Hope, Ozamiz, Philippines, where she ministered for many years |
'The removal' is a ceremony held in Ireland the late afternoon or evening before a funeral. It is a liturgy of the word, normally led by a priest. Many who cannot come for the funeral or who would not be expected there attend the removal, which takes place usually after working hours. There is only one Mass celebrated on the occasion of a death: the funeral Mass. The wake rarely lasts more than two nights and often only one.
Sister Clement was from from Union Hall, County Cork, in one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland.
View of Union Hall from Glandore, County Cork, Ireland
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