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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.

One of the obstacles to my leading a fervent life is the thought of what others may think. I would often wish …

October 17, 2022

Meditating on the Particular Judgement, God gave me great light. I realised that I should have to give an exact account of …

October 16, 2022

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, 2022

The life of St. Teresa teaches us that we should never despair of becoming saints. As a child she was filled with …

October 15, 2022

Death is the end of all things here, the end of time, of merit, of pain and mortification, of a hard life. …

October 14, 2022

Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: Lately the desire to be trampled on and become …

October 14, 2022

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

October 13, 2022

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

October 12, 2022

Today is the feast of St John XXIII. Just as many Generation X Catholic have an affection for St John Paul II …

October 11, 2022

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

October 9, 2022