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).
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.
The Morning Offering Transforms the Ordinary
Published on: 14 December, 2020
By: David Torkington
The first thing the early Christians would do each morning, therefore, was to renew the offering that they had made at their Sunday Mass.
Fill your Mind with the Goodness of God
Published on: 14 August, 2020
By: David Torkington
16th Part – This series in story form sums up a great adventure. It details all that the author has written on prayer and mystical contemplation, how to search for and find what is the greatest possible human achievement. It is replete with his most recent research and latest inspirational insights
The Mystical Meaning of Christ’s Descent into Hell
Published on: 29 April, 2020
By: David Torkington
I first began to understand certain mystical truths as I prayed at the place where Jesus was crucified on the first Good Friday. I have written about some of these insights when I spent a night in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, but some were too much for me to understand at the time
Lessons Learnt at Home
Published on: 9 May, 2016
By: David Torkington
My mother taught me to say my Morning Offering the moment I woke up in the morning. But above all she showed me how to put it into practice by her own example.
An Enclosed Carmelite Missionary?
Published on: 1 February, 2016
By: David Torkington
Unlike things cannot be united, so we must be cleansed from all that prevents us from having full union with Jesus, and we must be cleansed either in this life or in the next before, what we desire more than anything else can take place
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.
First Beginnings
Published on: 26 October, 2015
By: David Torkington
Prayer and My Personal Journey To mark the publication of my new website I would like to introduce you to my own personal spiritual journey, as I first learnt how to pray. I am only doing this so that you may learn from my failures more quickly that I did, and in the hope that…
The Fourth Lateran Council
Published on: 21 December, 2014
By: David Torkington
The Year 2015 was the 800th anniversary of what was perhaps the greatest of the reforming councils. The Fourth Lateran Council, convoked by Pope Innocent III gathered at Rome’s Lateran Palace beginning 11 November 1215. In the same year that Magna Carta was set to reform the political and social institutions in England, the Fourth…
The Morning Offering
Published on: 28 March, 2014
By: David Torkington
The Morning Offering Summary of the 3rd Lenten Lecture 24/03/2014 We know for a fact that the early Christians prayed five times a day, just as Jesus had done with his early disciples. They would rise at midnight to meditate on Christ’s resurrection, so that they would never forget that he was still alive and…