From the Tabernacle Jesus seems to say, “Stay with Me for it is towards evening and the day is now far spent”. This should urge me to come to visit Him often.
If my resurrection is a real one and is to produce fruit, it must be external, so that all may see I am not the same man, that my life is changed in Christ.
COMMENT: Fr Doyle wrote these notes while contemplating the scene in which the disciples encounter Jesus on the road to Emmaus during the 4th week of the Spiritual Exercises in 1907. He poses a question that we may fruitfully ask ourselves – can people perceive that my life has been changed in Christ? Or, as St Josemaria Escriva once put it:
How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: This man reads the life of Jesus Christ.
Today in America we celebrate Veterans Day, a memorial day of gratitude for the ending of the “Great War”- WWI, the war that took the remarkable, Father Doyle from this world. Veterans Day remembers all those who knew combat in war, all wars, though currently we thank, pray for, and honor all vets -living and deceased-for their service.
Father Doyle, thank you for your charitable service to all those in WWI, for your noble sacrifices, especially that of your very life, and we ask for your intercession to help the world choose peace, if at all possible, and to end all wars throughout the world today.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O, Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.