Sunset at Dalkey Island, a scene which would have been very familiar to Fr Doyle “Time that passeth like a shadow”(Ecclesiastes, 7. …
Virtues
October 29, 2014
Solid virtue is so called because it is formed by amassing together a facility in repeated acts. Hence the practice of any …
October 8, 2014
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, 2014
St Michael the Archangel Today is the feast of St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael, the archangels. This feast was significant …
September 29, 2014
Don’t let the devil spoil the work by making you fret and worry. COMMENT: This line from Fr Doyle is taken from …
September 28, 2014
You may make the most complete and absolute offering of yourself to God to bear every pain He may wish to send. …
September 24, 2014
St Pio of Pietrelcina It is indeed easy to condemn oneself to death, to make a generous offering of self-immolation; but to …
September 23, 2014
You know well that even the smallest cross and happening of your life is part of our Blessed Lord’s plan for your …
September 22, 2014
St John Houghton A devotion which does not consist in any special form of prayer nor in doing anything in particular more …
September 20, 2014
St Joseph the Worker Try and remember that sanctification means daily, hourly, hard work, and this unflinchingly, when weariness comes. COMMENT: Fr …
September 19, 2014