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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

Virtues

All the posts published.

The Third Degree of Humility.  1. Accepto. I will receive with joy all unpleasant things which I must bear : (a) pain, …

June 11, 2020

I will strive ever to perform each action as perfectly as possible, paying special attention to small duties e.g. saying grace, odd …

June 9, 2020

It is such a helpless feeling to be tossed about as it were on the waves of love, to feel the ardent, …

June 8, 2020

I had not the heart to wake up the poor nuns, and after all when one is fast asleep, is not a …

June 4, 2020

  I think it is evident that, in these days of awful sin and hatred of God, our Blessed Lord wants …

June 3, 2020

We must be intellectually pious, that is, our piety should rest on the bedrock of principle, and not on mood, on sentiment, …

May 30, 2020

You seem to be a little upset at not being able to feel more that you really love our Lord. The mere …

May 28, 2020

Dear Sir — One is often struck, on glancing over the papers, at the numerous appeals made to provide ‘comforts for our …

May 26, 2020

Jesus is looking at me as once he did upon blind Bartimaemus: “What wilt thou that I do to thee?” Lord, that …

May 25, 2020

A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows sharper with use. COMMENT: How correct Fr Doyle’s assessment is! The more …

May 21, 2020