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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

Saints

Posts dealing with saints and their relevance to Fr Doyle

St Pio of Pietrelcina It is indeed easy to condemn oneself to death, to make a generous offering of self-immolation; but to …

September 23, 2021

The Call of St Matthew by Caravaggio   We must love God with our whole heart. Can He be loved otherwise? Is …

September 21, 2021

A devotion which does not consist in any special form of prayer nor in doing anything in particular more than to listen …

September 20, 2021

Try and remember that sanctification means daily, hourly, hard work, and this unflinchingly, when weariness comes. COMMENT: Fr Doyle engaged in this …

September 19, 2021

Without constant union with our Lord there cannot be any real holiness, one reason being that without recollection the inspirations of the …

September 18, 2021

A deadly pitfall lies hidden in the desire of some to pour themselves out in works of zeal for God’s glory, to …

September 17, 2021

Our Blessed Lord loves me, with all my faults and failings, and has marked me out for the special graces which will …

September 16, 2021

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

September 13, 2021

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

September 12, 2021

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

September 11, 2021