From Mystical Premonitions to Contemplation
Published on: 19 July, 2016
By: David Torkington
Sometime ago I was speaking about what I called Mystical Premonitions or Touches of God
The Sacrament of Touch
Published on: 4 July, 2016
By: David Torkington
In 1986 the Sea of Galilee receded during a drought exposing an ancient fishing boat, 27 feet long by 7.5 feet wide.
“Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Published on: 16 June, 2016
By: David Torkington
I simply worshipped the heroes of ancient Greece when I was at school. I loved to hear stories about Troy and the heroes who fought there.
A Reflection on the Resurrection
Published on: 28 March, 2016
By: David Torkington
The Resurrection, means that Jesus has been swept up out of the world of space and time in which he’d lived before, not to leave us alone, but to be closer to us than ever before, and as he promised ‘even to the end of time.’
It’s all in the Trying
Published on: 24 January, 2016
By: David Torkington
One of the most important truths of the spiritual life that we neglect at our peril is that we won’t ultimately be judged by the wonderful feelings that we’ve experienced in prayer.
Pentecost – A Night in the Holy Sepulchre
Published on: 23 May, 2015
By: David Torkington
‘If you want old ideas read new books, but if you want new ideas read old books’. With these words my spiritual director gave me – ‘Abandonment to Divine Providence’ by the Jesuit French mystic Jean Pierre de Caussade SJ, who died in 1751. The book is perhaps better known under the title- ‘The Sacrament…
Duns Scotus and the Immaculate Conception
Published on: 8 December, 2014
By: David Torkington
Blessed John Duns Scotus saw so clearly that God had planned that his son, for whom the world was created, would be made flesh to live in and rule over that world as Christ the King. From this Duns Scotus argued that the very moment that God had made this decision, then that decision included…
The Beginning of Contemplative prayer
Published on: 3 October, 2014
By: David Torkington
In my last blog I tried to distinguish between true contemplative prayer and its counterfeit, but now I want to show how authentic contemplative prayer begins, by describing the prayer that usually precedes it. But before proceeding let me make two important points. Firstly I want to make it clear that contemplation is a pure…