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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

As part of the Second week, St Ignatius recommends a meditation on the early life of Christ. Here are his points …

October 21, 2010

Today we start Fr Doyle’s reflections on the second week of the Spiritual Exercises. This part of the Exercises begins with a …

October 19, 2010

St Ignatius Loyola The Fruit of the First Week: I realise in a way I never did before that God created me …

October 18, 2010

One of the obstacles to my leading a fervent life is the thought of what others may think. I would often …

October 17, 2010

St Margaret Mary Alacoque Meditating on the Particular Judgement, God gave me great light. I realised that I should have to give …

October 16, 2010

Solid virtue is so called because it is formed by amassing together a facility in repeated acts. Hence the practice of any …

October 8, 2010

Our Lady of the Rosary To Mary’s feet in heaven today the angels come in never-ending stream to lay before her the …

October 7, 2010

Do I ever say, when an occasion of denying myself comes, “It’s too hard, I am no saint?” Might it not be …

October 5, 2010

Saint Francis in Meditation In the end what once caused us pain and tears becomes the source of great interior joy, …

October 4, 2010

St Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church Kneeling at the grave of the Little Flower I gave myself into her hands …

October 1, 2010