A Course in Mystical Theology – Twenty Fourth Episode – The Way – A Spiritual Journey
Published on: 18 December, 2022
By: David Torkington
Christianity was originally called a ‘Way’, or rather, ‘The Way’. In other words it is a journey, an expedition, a great adventure, more exciting, more thrilling, more engrossing and ultimately more rewarding than any other conceivable journey. Furthermore, this journey is open to all because it involves falling in love. The more lowly, the more…
Marriage and Mystical Loving
Published on: 11 December, 2022
By: David Torkington
My book ‘The Primacy of Loving’ is being published in the UK on the 9th December and in the USA on the 1st January. If you have found what I have been saying in the past years helpful, then you will find far more in this book subtitled ‘The Spirituality of the Heart’. I can…
Immaculate Conception
Published on: 4 December, 2022
By: David Torkington
Perfect Man Perfect Mother The Meaning of the Immaculate Conception Of course I can’t remember being conceived nor growing into a baby in my mother’s womb. Nor for that matter do I remember being baptised a week later. I was totally dependent on my mother for everything, not just in those first weeks of my…
Counterfeit Mysticism
Published on: 26 November, 2022
By: David Torkington
Just before I ended my tenure as the Director of the Diocesan Retreat centre I was approached for help by Emilia Tyler. After spending a lifetime importing fashions to sell in her shop in New Bond Street in London, Emilia Tyler retired with her husband and set up a house of prayer at her villa…
A Course in Mystical Theology – TwentyThird Episode – The Living Temple
Published on: 23 November, 2022
By: David Torkington
One of the most surprising truths that I learnt when I first started to study scripture was that there is no record of Christ going into the Temple to offer sacrifice. The reason was because he had come to set up a new Temple as he was to promise the Samaritan woman (John 4:21-25).
Put Christ back into Christmas with St Francis of Assisi
Published on: 13 November, 2022
By: David Torkington
A friend took me to a Christmas dinner at a local pub noted for its good food. It was also noted for something else too that nearly forced me into a fight. I am referring to its seasonal cider punch, served hot with a sprinkling of spices. It was so moreish that you couldn’t help…
A Course in Mystical Theology – Twentysecond Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 5
Published on: 30 September, 2022
By: David Torkington
I would now like to complete what I have called my blue-print for prayer by using each letter of the two words – OUR FATHER
A Course in Mystical Theology – Twentyfirst Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 4
Published on: 27 September, 2022
By: David Torkington
Once all the sublime truths of Christ’s continual and abiding presence within us are realised, then there seems to be only one thing that a person can do and that is to make an act of total abandonment of themselves to God.
A Course in Mystical Theology – Twentieth Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 3
Published on: 21 September, 2022
By: David Torkington
The Jesuit liturgist Father Joseph Jungmann said that “Christ does not offer alone. His people are joined to him and offer with him and through him.
A Course in Mystical Theology – Nineteenth Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 2
Published on: 14 September, 2022
By: David Torkington
St Teresa of Avila said that we cannot really pray without distractions because that is how we keep saying no to self and yes, to God.
A Course in Mystical Theology – Eighteenth Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer 1
Published on: 10 September, 2022
By: David Torkington
The Venerable Fulton Sheen once said, “In human loving all the powerful feelings come at the beginning, but in divine loving the powerful feelings come later, when we have been tried and tested”.
A Course in Mystical Theology – Seventeenth Episode – The One Thing Necessary
Published on: 15 August, 2022
By: David Torkington
When the Church was born on the first Pentecost day it was as poor as Christ when he was born on the first Christmas day.