As part of the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises, retreatants meditate on the early life of Christ. One of these meditations …
Virtues
October 20, 2025
Today is the feast of St Paul of the Cross, the founder of the Passionist order. He lived in the 1700’s, and …
October 19, 2025
Today we start Fr Doyle’s reflections on the second week of the Spiritual Exercises. This part of the Exercises begins with a …
October 19, 2025
The Fruit of the First Week: I realise in a way I never did before that God created me for His service, …
October 18, 2025
One of the obstacles to my leading a fervent life is the thought of what others may think. I would often wish …
October 17, 2025
Meditating on the Particular Judgement, God gave me great light. I realised that I should have to give an exact account of …
October 16, 2025
Last night I rose at one a.m. and walked two miles barefooted in reparation for the sins of priests to the chapel …
October 15, 2025
The life of St. Teresa teaches us that we should never despair of becoming saints. As a child she was filled with …
October 15, 2025
Death is the end of all things here, the end of time, of merit, of pain and mortification, of a hard life. …
October 14, 2025
Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: Lately the desire to be trampled on and become …
October 13, 2025