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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

The conviction has been growing that nocturnal adoration will be established only if I spend much time myself before the Blessed Sacrament …

July 2, 2017

Devotion to the Sacred Heart cannot exist without self-denial; the flames and thorns around that Heart, the cross that crowns It, point …

June 30, 2017

St Josemaria Escriva   Today is the feast of St Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei. Instead of a message from …

June 26, 2017

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

June 16, 2017

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

June 13, 2017

The Third Degree of Humility.  1. Accepto. I will receive with joy all unpleasant things which I must bear : (a) pain, …

June 11, 2017

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

June 7, 2017

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

May 8, 2017

At the community Mass this morning I again felt an overpowering desire to become a saint. It came suddenly, filling my soul …

May 3, 2017

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

April 16, 2017