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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 feel also a great longing to love Jesus very, very much, to draw very close to His Sacred Heart, and to …

June 17, 2020

I felt the presence of Jesus very near to me while praying in the chapel at Ramsgrange. He seemed to want me …

June 16, 2020

Slept on the floor. No relief in small sufferings. Put on chain in bad humour. Violent temptations to eat cake and resisted …

June 13, 2020

Venerable Matt Talbot   I do not want, in fact I forbid you, to be imprudent in the matter of corporal penances. …

June 7, 2020

  My way is sure. I think I can say now without a shade of doubt or hesitation that the path …

May 8, 2020

  I have just returned from a mission. Before going I made up my mind to give up for the week …

April 18, 2020

I have just returned from a mission. Before going I made up my mind to give up for the week my mortifications …

April 16, 2020

St Benedict Joseph Labre Second pilgrimage to Amettes from Locre. During the journey I felt our Lord wanted to give me some …

April 16, 2020

I know I can never be happy unless I am heroically generous with Him. This I have proved time after time. A …

March 21, 2020

A. M. D. G. SOLEMN VOW. After much thought and prayer, feeling myself urged strongly by grace and the ceaseless pleading of …

March 21, 2020