Holiness and perfection depend on yourself, not on the actions of others. COMMENT: How easy it is for us to blame others, …
Virtues
November 16, 2021
Our Lord is displeased only when He sees no attempt made to get rid of imperfections which, when deliberate, clog the soul …
November 9, 2021
I was greatly struck and helped yesterday by these words of the Imitation (of Christ): My child: let me do with you …
November 3, 2021
From their cleansing prison of fire the holy souls cry to us for help. With joy indeed they bear the …
November 2, 2021
St Alphonsus Rodriguez St. Alphonsus Rodriguez is a striking example of one who, though in a lowly station in life, devoid …
October 31, 2021
Sunset at Dalkey Island, a scene which would have been very familiar to Fr Doyle “Time that passeth like a shadow”(Ecclesiastes, 7. …
October 29, 2021
St Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church The life of St. Teresa teaches us that we should never despair of …
October 15, 2021
Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: Lately the desire to be trampled on and become …
October 13, 2021
Solid virtue is so called because it is formed by amassing together a facility in repeated acts. Hence the practice of any …
October 8, 2021
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, 2021