How little I think of committing venial sin, and how soon I forget I have done so! Yet God hates nothing more than even the shadow of sin, nothing does more harm to my spiritual progress and hinders any real advance in holiness. My God, give me an intense hatred and dread and horror of the smallest sin. I want to please You and love You and serve You as …
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September 6, 2011
3 March 1873 – 16 August 1917 My Martyrdom for Mary’s Sake. Darling Mother Mary, in preparation for the glorious martyrdom which I feel assured thou art going to obtain for me, I, thy most unworthy child, on this the first day of thy month, solemnly commence my life of slow martyrdom by earnest hard work and constant self-denial. With my blood I promise thee to keep this resolution, do …
August 16, 2011
St Aloysius Gonzaga SJ Jesus told me today that the work of regeneration and sanctification is to be done by leading souls to Him in the Blessed Sacrament. COMMENT: Fr Doyle wrote these notes in his diary on June 21, 1917, slightly less than two months before his death. Was this based on an actual vision or a locution or just a simply inspiration? We do not know, but ultimately …
June 21, 2011
Blessed Margaret Ball, one of the Irish martyrs whose feast we celebrate today I have long had the feeling that, since the world is growing so rapidly worse and worse and God has lost His hold, as it were, upon the hearts of men, He is looking all the more earnestly and anxiously for big things from those who are faithful to Him still. He cannot, perhaps, gather a large …
June 20, 2011
One of the obstacles to my leading a fervent life is the thought of what others may think. I would often wish to do some act of mortification, but I am prevented because I know others will see it. Again, I desire to keep certain rules which I have broken (e.g. Latin conversation), but a false shame, a fear of what others may say, stops me. I know this is …
June 15, 2011
A devotion which does not consist in any special form of prayer nor in doing anything in particular more than to listen to inspirations, is devotion to the Holy Spirit of God…For, as the work of Creation belongs preeminently to the Father and that of the Redemption to the Son, so the work of our Sanctification and Perfection is the work of the Holy Ghost. We honour Him when …
June 12, 2011
Today is the 1st birthday of the Remembering Fr William Doyle SJ website and blog! This is the 325th post, so I haven’t quite managed to upload a post everyday as I had hoped and intended. I missed these various days mainly due to being just far too busy. Mea culpa! The blog contains over 140,000 words either from Fr Doyle’s own writings or of commentary on his life …
June 7, 2011
Fr Doyle wrote the following letter to a friend on this day in 1917. I have not told them at home and do not want them to know but we have had a terrible time for the last three weeks, constant and increasing shelling, with many wonderful escapes. We are on the eve of a tremendous battle and the danger will be very great. Sometimes I think God wishes the …
June 5, 2011
There will be no posts until the middle of next week as I will be attending the beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome. If I were more organised I would have already prepared the posts in advance for each of the days that I will be away, but unfortunately there are only so many hours in the day, and as Fr Doyle would say, our primary duties …
April 29, 2011
Feast of Mary, Mother of God A New Year! What visions of almost boundless good, hidden in the fair bosom of the new-born year, rise up before me. What treasures of grace, what innumerable opportunities of merit are within my grasp if only I seize them.
January 1, 2011