Lent

    When you stop falling you will be in heaven

    Published on: 19 February, 2020

    By: David Torkington

    Some weeks ago I went to a special Mass prepared by a group of laypeople to ask for God’s mercy on them and on their families as part of their preparation for Lent .

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    Giving Back Words their Original Meaning

    Published on: 25 March, 2018

    By: David Torkington

    The local Charismatic group were celebrating  forty years since their foundation and were preparing a special Mass for that purpose.

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    A Cautionary Tale for Lent

    Published on: 12 March, 2017

    By: David Torkington

    Some years ago, I shared a flat with a man called Caruthers. If ‘morals make the man, and manners make the gentleman’, then Caruthers was the finest gentleman I had ever met, or so I thought for the first few weeks.

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