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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

Prayer

Posts dealing with prayer and the interior life in general

I long to get back to my little room at night, to calm and quiet, and yet I dread it, for He …

July 30, 2020

St James   You ask how to pray well. The answer is, Pray often, in season and out of season, against yourself, …

July 25, 2020

Do not give up prayer on any account, no matter how dry or rotten you feel; every moment, especially before Him in …

July 24, 2020

The conviction has been growing that nocturnal adoration will be established only if I spend much time myself before the Blessed Sacrament …

July 2, 2020

If an aspiration, on the authority of the Blessed Cure d’Ars, often saved a soul, what must you not do each day …

June 28, 2020

Try to grasp the fact – a very hard thing to do – that in the spiritual life ‘feelings’ count for nothing, …

June 23, 2020

The Moment of Benediction. The priest turns and raises aloft the Sacred Host. In loving adoration, in reverent awe, the invisible angels …

June 13, 2020

It is such a helpless feeling to be tossed about as it were on the waves of love, to feel the ardent, …

June 8, 2020

I assert fearlessly that if only we all prayed enough – and I mean by that a constant, steady unflagging stream of …

June 1, 2020

You seem to be a little upset at not being able to feel more that you really love our Lord. The mere …

May 28, 2020