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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

This morning at Mass, our Blessed Lord gave me grace to see what a fool I am to let my life slip …

July 5, 2025

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

July 2, 2025

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, 2025

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

June 26, 2025

You need not fear whatever He may send you to bear, since His grace will come with it; but you should always …

June 19, 2025

A great desire to know our Lord better, His attractive character, His personal love for me, the resolve to read the life …

June 18, 2025

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

June 11, 2025

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

April 16, 2025

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

April 14, 2025
Ask for prayers - Fr Willie Doyle

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

March 21, 2025