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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.

Reading today of how Luisa de Carvajal made herself the slave of her two maids, the old desire for this kind of …

February 4, 2024

It seems to me that the best and most practical resolution I can make is to determine to perform each action with …

February 3, 2024

Constant urging of Jesus to do “hard things” for him, things which cost. I shrink from sacrifice, but I know well He …

February 1, 2024

One month of the new year has passed away, leaving behind it the memory of what has been done for God and …

January 31, 2024

A kind word goes far. I stopped to say a few words to a group of men at a street corner in …

January 30, 2024

Abandon yourself completely into the hands of God, and take directly from Him every event of life, agreeable, or disagreeable. Only then …

January 29, 2024

As to any practice of piety there is a double danger: recommending it as infallible, or condemning it as useless. I always …

January 28, 2024

Last night I rose at 1am and went down to the church, renewing before the crucifix my desire and promise absolutely to …

January 27, 2024

The mere saving of their souls should be the last thought of religious who have vowed their lives for God’s glory. COMMENT: …

January 26, 2024

Every grace we get enlightens the understanding and strengthens the will. When the understanding is enlightened, we have the awful alternative of …

January 25, 2024