A Course in Mystical Theology – Thirty Fifth Episode – The Mass and Mystical Prayer
Published on: 30 May, 2023
By: David Torkington
The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek and it means to be wrapped in God. The first part of the spiritual adventure on which we have embarked leads us onwards to be wrapped in God when meditation reaches its climax. But this is only first enthusiasm that reaches its high point in what I have…
Moral Theology and Mystical Theology – Introducing Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
Published on: 5 February, 2019
By: David Torkington
It was after Quietism (1687) was condemned that the faithful were left with a spirituality that was primarily a moral teaching, without the love derived from mystical contemplation that would enable a person to live that moral teaching.
Mystical marriage
Published on: 28 February, 2017
By: David Torkington
When Helen, said to be the most beautiful woman in Greek antiquity fled with her lover to Troy, she did not receive the reception that she expected.
The Transforming Union or the Mystical Marriage
Published on: 18 August, 2014
By: David Torkington
The final stage in the mystic way is usually called the Transforming Union or the Mystical Marriage. Now it doesn’t suddenly begin because God does something other than what he’s been doing all along – it begins because what he’s been doing all along finally destroys everything in us that’s been keeping him out. Many…
Mystical Marriage
Published on: 22 June, 2014
By: David Torkington
Some years ago I had lunch with friends in London. On my way out they introduced me to their father who was busy working in the garden. Without thinking I asked him what he was doing and he replied –“I do be digging the garden.” Some months later I met a nun who taught Irish…