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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

St Therese It seems to me that the best and most practical resolution I can make is to determine to perform …

February 3, 2014

St John Bosco One month of the new year has passed away, leaving behind it the memory of what has been …

January 31, 2014

Abandon yourself completely into the hands of God, and take directly from Him every event of life, agreeable, or disagreeable. Only then …

January 29, 2014

The Conversion of St Paul Every grace we get enlightens the understanding and strengthens the will. When the understanding is enlightened, …

January 25, 2014

March for Life Life is too short for a truce. COMMENT: How typical is this pithy statement from Fr Doyle! We …

January 22, 2014

St Agnes Even as a child I was convinced that one day God would give me the grace of martyrdom. When …

January 21, 2014

Blessed Chiara Luce Badano   Jesus knows I have only one wish in this world: to love Him and Him alone. …

January 18, 2014

The temptation of St Anthony  Are you not foolish in wishing to be free from these attacks of impatience, etc.? I …

January 17, 2014

It seems to me I have failed to keep my resolutions because I have not acted from the motive of the …

January 7, 2014

And you, wives and bread-winners, have you no task within the fold, no little flock to tend and guard? Has not …

December 29, 2013