During the last three nights of the retreat I slept on the floor without feeling any inconvenience after, though I woke very …
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December 20, 2022
Fr Doyle wrote the following letter to his sister from the trenches on 19th December 1916, 106 years ago today. It gives …
December 19, 2022
“I have called upon Thee in the day of my trouble” (Psalm 85. 7). Jesus is our comforter. What burden is there …
December 18, 2022
A want of will is the chief obstacle to our becoming saints. We are not holy because we do not really wish …
December 17, 2022
Avoid worry, anxiety, uneasiness about anything. “The devil’s boiling pot” expresses this state of mind; one trouble ended, another crops up to …
December 16, 2022
I cannot say i am quite in love with camp life, which in many respects is quite repellent. But even in these …
December 15, 2022
On this day in 1917, Major General Hickie paid another tribute to Fr Doyle. Writing to his father, Hugh Doyle, General Hickie …
December 15, 2022
God has many gifts to bestow upon us, but none more precious than time. Yet how we abuse this royal gift! How …
December 15, 2022
Surely you are not right in trying to keep our Lord away from you, or in thinking that He looks upon you …
December 14, 2022
Since I became chaplain I’ve grown very lazy and on mortified, the cause of much unhappiness and remorse to me. My excuse …
December 13, 2022