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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, 2012

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

April 17, 2012

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

April 16, 2012

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

April 2, 2012

I am writing in great desolation and sadness, tempted even to abandon my vocation and plunge headlong into sin. All this is …

March 31, 2012

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

March 11, 2012

Martyrs of Sebaste During the winter I have done a penance which I shrink from and dread in a way which I …

March 10, 2012

A fierce temptation during Mass and thanksgiving to break my resolution and indulge my appetite at breakfast…Jesus urged me to pray …

February 26, 2012

What is it to be a saint? Does it mean that we must macerate this flesh of ours with cruel austerities, …

February 22, 2012

Fr John Sullivan SJ I hope every single one of you will have broken every resolution you made in the retreat before …

February 19, 2012