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The Father Willie Doyle Association

Father Willie Doyle Association

Official site for the canonisation cause of the Servant of God Fr Willie Doyle SJ

Jesuit

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One of the obstacles to my leading a fervent life is the thought of what others may think. I would often wish …

October 17, 2022

Meditating on the Particular Judgement, God gave me great light. I realised that I should have to give an exact account of …

October 16, 2022

Death is the end of all things here, the end of time, of merit, of pain and mortification, of a hard life. …

October 14, 2022

We continue with the meditations of the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises, and in particular with the meditation on Hell. Here …

October 13, 2022

Today we consider one of the first exercises from the first week of the Spiritual Exercises – the meditation on sin. The …

October 12, 2022

Fr Doyle began his “Long retreat” – 30 days of the Spiritual Exercises – at this time in 1907. It was a …

October 11, 2022

Today we will start a new series of special quotations from Fr Doyle. This day 115 years ago – 10 October 1907 …

October 11, 2022

I realise in a way I never did before that God created me for His service, that He has a strict right …

September 13, 2022

If I do not begin to serve God as I ought now, when shall I do so? Shall I ever? This retreat …

September 12, 2022

My intense desire and longing is to make others love Jesus and to draw them to His Sacred Heart. Recently at Mass …

September 11, 2022