I want you to know what I went through by volunteering for the Front. God made me feel with absolute certainty – …
WWI
January 14, 2022
105 years ago tonight Fr Doyle was awoken to absolve some dying soldiers. This is his description of the event, sent home …
January 13, 2022
Each morning at Holy Communion invite Jesus, with all the love and fervour you can, to enter into your heart and dwell …
January 12, 2022
Continuing from yesterday’s post about 8 January 1917… Our visitor from the sky was back again today repeating his old trick, with …
January 9, 2022
Our airmen, very justly, have earned a big reputation for their skill and daring, but the ‘Allyman’ can still give them …
January 8, 2022
I did not get my work finished till rather late tonight and as I had to turn out again shortly it was …
January 4, 2022
Before I thank you for your letter which was doubly welcome in my exile, I want to tell you the New Year’s …
January 4, 2022
How little the expression ‘we were shelled for two hours’ conveys to you. People read in their papers some mornings: ‘The enemy …
January 1, 2022
Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: I have celebrated Mass in some strange places and …
December 28, 2021
The following two excerpts from a letter written by Fr Doyle recount two incidents that happened on St Stephen’s Day, 1916. They …
December 26, 2021