The effect of fervour may be likened to that of fire on water. When cold, water is motionless and chills all that …
Prayer
February 12, 2023
You seem to be a little troubled at finding yourself cold at prayer and as if our Lord had abandoned you. Were …
February 10, 2023
Some of Fr Willie’s favourite aspirations: l. My Crucified Jesus, help me to crucify myself. 2. Lord, teach me how to pray …
February 6, 2023
As to any practice of piety there is a double danger: recommending it as infallible, or condemning it as useless. I always …
January 28, 2023
There is nothing better than the practice of aspirations, steadily growing in number. Keep a little book and enter them once a …
January 24, 2023
The life of Jesus was a continual prayer. Even during His public life He began, continued and ended everything He did by …
November 25, 2022
You certainly put your finger on the weak spot in most priestly lives – the want of prayer. The connection between prayer …
November 14, 2022
Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on October 25 1916. It refers to the previous night, in other words, this …
October 24, 2022
Last night I rose at one a.m. and walked two miles barefooted in reparation for the sins of priests to the chapel …
October 15, 2022
Two wings by which we can fly to God and become saints: the habit of little tiny acts of self-denial and the habit …
August 19, 2022