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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

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

April 29, 2026

We continue today with an excerpt from the original letter detailing some of the work Fr Willie had to undertake towards the …

April 28, 2026

Fr Willie sent the letter below to his father one year after the gas attack of April 1916. In this letter, he …

April 27, 2026

I think I can say with truth that I have now no desire or wish except His. I have told Him that …

April 25, 2026

I have long had the feeling that, since the world is growing so rapidly worse and worse and God has lost His …

April 24, 2026

God sometimes seems to ask the impossible, a sorrow, a cross. Oh! it would crush me! How can this be? How? Lord, …

April 23, 2026

Work for Jesus! Yes, though the weary head may ache and the tired brain refuse to act. Work on, work on; the …

April 22, 2026

This morning I lay awake powerless to over come myself and to make my promised visit to the chapel. Then I felt …

April 21, 2026

“They forgot God who saved them” (Psalm 105, 21). To how many may not these words be applied today! How many there …

April 20, 2026

If I were put in a dungeon, like the martyrs, with nothing to lie on but the bare stone floor, with …

April 19, 2026