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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

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We continue with the meditations of the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises, and in particular with the meditation on Hell. Here …

October 13, 2025

Today we consider one of the first exercises from the first week of the Spiritual Exercises – the meditation on sin. The …

October 12, 2025

Today is the feast of St John XXIII. At first glance there does not seem to be much in common between Fr Doyle …

October 11, 2025

Pray for all, but especially for sinners, and in particular for those whose sins are most painful to His Sacred Heart. With …

October 9, 2025

Solid virtue is so called because it is formed by amassing together a facility in repeated acts. Hence the practice of any …

October 8, 2025

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, 2025

In the end what once caused us pain and tears becomes the source of great interior joy, since we have realised how …

October 4, 2025

I cannot deny that I love Jesus, love Him passionately, love Him with every fibre of my heart. He knows it, too, …

October 3, 2025

He hath given His angels charge over us, to guide us, to guard and shelter us from dangers, to lead us safely …

October 2, 2025

Kneeling at the grave of the Little Flower I gave myself into her hands to guide and to make me a saint. …

October 1, 2025