METANOIA Retreats

Join us on a program for personal renewal in this Jubilee Year 2025

Patron: His Lordship Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Theme: Back to Prayer – Forward with Christ the King

David Torkington’s Metanoia retreats for Clergy, Religious and the laity, use his books Passport to Perfection and Early Christian Spirituality as well as his free fifteen-video series on prayer, and his free audio presentations of How to Pray and The Hermit, read by him on Radio Maria.

Contact our director, Sr Bernadine OSF for more details:

David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker who specializes in Prayer, Christian Spirituality and Mystical Theology.

For the past fifty years, he has been communicating to his audience his profound love of the traditional and authentic Mystical and Biblical Theology that has inspired all his writings on prayer.

He has done this through his ability to express profound truths simply and truthfully in his inspiring lectures and retreats to religious and laity, in England, Ireland, Europe and Africa.

He was asked to lecture on Mystical Theology at the Angelicum in Rome as the only speaker who had practical knowledge and experience in Mystical Theology.

More recently he has concentrated on writing, blogging, podcasting and broadcasting.

David was elected to membership of The Athenaeum Private Members Club, Pall Mall, London in 2016

David’s Publications, Audiovisual and Interactive presentations

Passport to Perfection by David Torkington
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Early Christian Spirituality by David Torkington
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Never too Late to Love
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  • The primacy of Loving describes and explains in modern language the Christian Mystical Tradition.  A guide to living Christian mystical spirituality for all today and includes a historical synopsis of Christian Spirituality.
  • Wisdom from Franciscan Italy details the implications of the revelation of the Primacy of Love received by Francis moments before he received the Stigmata.
  • How to Pray A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life In How to Pray David Torkington offers everyday guidance for entering more deeply into prayer, whether you are a beginner or looking to go deeper in your prayer life. published by Our Sunday Visitor Publications
  • Prayer Made Simple
    This booklet shows how to pray according to the Christian tradition from the beginning. It is a simple, practical guide on prayer, and how to implement and benefit from it in daily life. Published by the Catholic Truth Society

Latest Blog Posts

Mystical Theology
A Course

Prayer to Contemplation – Free Course on Essentialist Press

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To listen to all 15 of the talks on prayer, please go to the Essentialist Press website Episode 1: Contemplation and the fruits of Contemplation (full episode) Some time ago the Founder of Essentialist Press came across the website and works of David Torkington, a renowned (and properly titled) ‘Mystical Theologian’. With a love and…
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The Lost Art of Prayer — Praying as Christ Himself Showed Us

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Join the online retreat that will  be inaugurated on LifeSite News, by his Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider on Ash Wednesday. Listen to David announcing the Retreat starting Ash Wednesday 2025 In order to return to the profound and contemplative origins of our faith in this Jubilee Year, a new form of Retreat had been inaugurated…
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Ignatian and Carmelite Spirituality – Complementary or Contradictory?

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In order to shed some light on the complementarity between Ignatian and Carmelite Spirituality that is being discussed at present  I would like to say a few words to avoid confusion.
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A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith

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Passport to Perfection By David Torkington

A Pattern for Personal  Prayer

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From the Addendum: Passport to Perfection   To begin with you can use this pattern for daily prayer, but many people find that they eventually come to know the Blueprint off by heart, and they prefer to use their own words rather than the set prayers below.  Begin withPsalm sixty-nine with which St Benedict instructed his…
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