Across the Divide: An Irish Padre of the Great War: Fr. William Doyle, S.J., M.C., Chaplain to the Forces 1915-1917 – a talk on Fr Doyle’s military career by Carole Hope on this coming Saturday 15th September in the Lecture Theatre in Collins Barracks, Dublin. Doors open at 2pm and the talk commences at 2.30pm. The talk is hosted by the Western Front Association, and there is a small fee …
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September 9, 2012
Today we have exciting news about two initiatives to create greater awareness of Fr Doyle and his life. Presentation on Fr Doyle’s military career Readers of this blog may have noticed the many expert comments by Carole Hope on aspects of Fr Doyle’s service as military chaplain. Carole is an expert on Fr Doyle’s military career, and these comments often contain wonderful new titbits of information that have not previously …
August 24, 2012
I am convinced that generally we reach sanctity of life only through a long series of falls from which we get up. COMMENT: Fr Doyle had a very realistic understanding of our human nature. He too struggled with temptations and with his own defects, but like the saints he realised that we do not battle alone, but rather with the help of our loving God, of our guardian angel and …
February 20, 2012
Lent is almost upon us – in fact, Ash Wednesday is in three weeks from tomorrow. One important aspect of our Lenten practice should be spiritual reading. I can think of no better book to read during the holy season of Lent than Professor Alfred O’Rahilly’s biography of Fr Doyle. And the great news is that the publishers have a 20% sale until this coming Friday, so this is a …
January 31, 2012
Each look of love to the Tabernacle causes a beat of grace-laden love in the Sacred Heart. COMMENT: The Lord awaits us in the Tabernacle. Fr Doyle drew much strength from regular prayer before the Lord – often he could be found in prayer right through the night, especially when he was busy preaching a retreat. It seems that the busier he was, the more he approached the Lord …
January 27, 2012
Instead of a thought for today, I thought it might be worthwhile to share some recent links to other websites that have recently featured Fr Doyle, especially last week around the time of his anniversary. Readers of this site might like to visit these sites and see what others have to say about Fr Doyle. Fr Mark Daniel Kirby OSB – Vultus Christi blog http://vultus.stblogs.org/2011/08/father-willie-doyle-sj-a-pries.html Anita Moore OPL – V …
August 22, 2011
I have posted about this before, but now that Lent is upon us I am posting it again, simply because the book is so good. I can think of no better book to read during the holy season of Lent than Professor Alfred O’Rahilly’s biography of Fr Doyle. It is a masterpiece on many levels – a psychologically astute review of Fr Doyle’s character, a wonderful history of World War …
March 8, 2011
Last week I gratefully received an old Belgian prayer card of Fr Doyle with an imprimator from 1939. I have scanned the card and the file can be found below. How far and wide did devotion to Fr Doyle spread? We know that O’Rahilly’s biography was translated into more than half a dozen European languages. One person from the Netherlands has commented on the site about how his Dutch …
March 6, 2011
The Remembering Fr Doyle blog is now available on Twitter! The daily quote will be linked on Twitter much like it currently is on Facebook. Please follow the blog on Twitter, and even more importantly, please re-tweet the message so that even more people can come to know and love Fr Doyle! Just click on the image below or in the right hand column.
March 5, 2011
Following my post a few days ago about the relative lack of canonised Irish saints from the past 500 years, Fr Gabriel Burke has started a series with short biographies of some Irish causes for canonisation. It is worth a look: http://frgabrielburke.blogspot.com/
January 13, 2011