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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

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

May 8, 2019

I think I can say with truth that I have now no desire or wish except His. I have told Him that …

April 25, 2019

  During His Passion our Lord was bound and dragged from place to place. I have hourly opportunities of imitating Him …

April 15, 2019

It is easy for me to test my love for jesus. Do I love what He loved and came down from heaven …

March 30, 2019

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

March 21, 2019

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

March 21, 2019

  The path of life is rough and stony. Sharp flints and hidden thorns are thickly strewn upon its surface, wounding …

March 16, 2019

  If I have resolved to nail myself to the cross, let me bear ever in mind that our Lord is …

March 13, 2019

St Francis Xavier Vince teipsum – conquer yourself. This is the secret of the Spiritual Exercises. “I learnt no other lesson from …

March 12, 2019

Towards the end of the retreat a light came to me that, now that I have given Jesus all the sacrifices I …

March 11, 2019