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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

Self-conquest

Posts dealing with penance and self-conquest

I am slowly learning the lesson Jesus brought me out here to teach me. The first and greatest is that I must …

October 26, 2021

My God, this morning I was in despair. After some days of relaxation owing partly to sickness, I resolved to begin my …

October 22, 2021

St John Paul II   When it was not some infirmity or other than caused him to experience pain, it was he …

October 22, 2021

St Paul of the Cross Today is the feast of St Paul of the Cross, the founder of the Passionist order. He …

October 19, 2021

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, 2021

Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: Lately the desire to be trampled on and become …

October 13, 2021

St John XXIII Today is the feast of St John XXIII. Just as many Generation X Catholic have an affection for St …

October 11, 2021

St Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church Kneeling at the grave of the Little Flower I gave myself into her hands …

October 1, 2021

Fr Doyle wrote the following very private notes in his diary on 27 September 1915 about his prayer the previous night: Last …

September 26, 2021

I was very much annoyed because because someone burnt the floor of my dug-out and also on finding my candles had been …

September 25, 2021