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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.

I was very much annoyed because someone burnt the floor of my dug-out and also on finding my candles had been taken. …

December 23, 2025

My genius of an orderly fried meat and pudding together and, with a smile of triumph on his face, brought both on …

December 22, 2025

Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on 21 December 1913, 112 years ago today. It relates to a recent trip …

December 21, 2025

21 December: A day I always like because the turning point of the year and from this on the evenings will be …

December 21, 2025

During the last three nights of the retreat I slept on the floor without feeling any inconvenience after, though I woke very …

December 20, 2025

“I have called upon Thee in the day of my trouble” (Psalm 85. 7). Jesus is our comforter. What burden is there …

December 18, 2025

A want of will is the chief obstacle to our becoming saints. We are not holy because we do not really wish …

December 17, 2025

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, 2025

I cannot say i am quite in love with camp life, which in many respects is quite repellent. But even in these …

December 15, 2025

Surely you are not right in trying to keep our Lord away from you, or in thinking that He looks upon you …

December 14, 2025