A Christmas Message from a German Soldier – Preparing for Christmas 2016
Published on: 23 December, 2016
By: David Torkington
St Bonaventure once said, “Contemplation is first learned at the mother’s breast.”
The Meaning of God’s Secret Plan – Preparing for Christmas 2016
Published on: 18 December, 2016
By: David Torkington
I want to let you into a secret. It is the secret of sanctity, and St Paul was the first to pen it.
An Immaculate Son needs an Immaculate Mother – Preparing for Christmas 2016
Published on: 8 December, 2016
By: David Torkington
In his book A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, Mark Twain imagines the old and ailing King becoming a commoner, visiting his people, hoping to improve their lot.
Murder and Mystery – Preparing for Christmas 2016
Published on: 4 December, 2016
By: David Torkington
I want to tell you about a criminal who escaped from justice even though he had committed terrible atrocities..
St Francis of Assisi – Part 6 – The Poverello
Published on: 1 December, 2016
By: David Torkington
After Pope Innocent III had approved the rule of life that St Francis had presented to him, the little band of Brothers set out for home.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 5 – The Founder
Published on: 13 November, 2016
By: David Torkington
St Bonaventure described God’s love as A shaft of light that flashes out from the divine darkness, that suddenly enables a person to see the truth that they had never seen before.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 4 – The Preacher
Published on: 3 November, 2016
By: David Torkington
It was in the church of St Mary of the Angels that a momentous event took place in the life of St Francis.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 3 – The Hermit
Published on: 26 October, 2016
By: David Torkington
After the party when St Francis had a brief mystical experience, he began to visit churches and places of solitude where he could prayer. Firstly he went with a friend, and then on his own. He was tempted to believe that all his exertions were a waste of time. Then one day everything changed. Whenever…
Mourning for My Maker
Published on: 19 October, 2016
By: David Torkington
My family used to spend their summer holidays in our little cottage on the Yorkshire moors just below the mighty Ingleborough, which was the nearest thing I had ever seen to a mountain.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 1 – The Second Christ
Published on: 3 October, 2016
By: David Torkington
For the feast day of St Francis on the 4 October, I am beginning a series of blogs on the life of St Francis of Assisi.
The Explosion of Love Unlimited
Published on: 26 September, 2016
By: David Torkington
Although Jesus was full of love and could communicate it to others whilst He was on earth, God’s plan was initially limited. In other words, in entering into a world of space and time, Jesus was necessarily limited by the laws of space and time. To put it simply, he could only be at one…
Mystical Contemplation is for All
Published on: 17 August, 2016
By: David Torkington
Recently I wrote about the sacred touch used by the first Apostles and their successors to hand down the love that had been received by Jesus to successive generations.