The Sense of the Sacred – Back to the faith of Our Fathers
Published on: 29 September, 2023
By: David Torkington
In a talk that I have just recorded in a series I am giving on prayer, I tell how, as the Director of the Diocesan Retreat and Conference Centre in London, I handed out an anonymous questionnaire to priests who attended the courses from 1972 to 1981. I was horrified to discover that no priest…
A course in Mystical Theology – Fourth episode – Lay Spirituality
Published on: 12 March, 2022
By: David Torkington
Although the later spiritualities of those who chose a celibate life may inspire us, and their teaching on prayer and other principles of the spiritual life might help us, we must firstly look to the spirituality that Our Lord gave to the laity in the early Church.
A course in Mystical Theology – Second episode – Back to the Future
Published on: 17 February, 2022
By: David Torkington
The letter was direct and to the point. I was given the sack and would have to vacate the property by the first of January 1981.
A course in Mystical Theology – First episode – One thing to change the world
Published on: 9 February, 2022
By: David Torkington
The essence of the Spirituality that Jesus bequeathed to the early Church can be summed up in this word – Love. Not ours, but God’s love
The Demise of Mystical Theology
Published on: 7 December, 2018
By: David Torkington
It has always been believed that happiness depends on love more than on anything else. The greater the love, the greater the happiness.
Celibacy and Sexual Deviancy – Mystical Theology has the answer
Published on: 31 October, 2018
By: David Torkington
It is said that those who have been uncovering the truth about the corruption in the Church, most particularly in high places, are the instruments of the devil because they scandalize the faithful.
Back to the Future – A Cultural and Committed Catholic?
Published on: 1 October, 2018
By: David Torkington
Over thirty years ago, by accident rather than by design, I became aware of the terrible sexual scandals that hit the headlines ten or so years later.
Towards the Mystic Way – Through Mystical Theology
Published on: 17 July, 2018
By: David Torkington
Let us imagine that a person is able to attain their wildest dreams and become a multibillionaire, an adored pop performer, a Nobel Prize winner…
Learning to Love – The Meaning of Mystical Theology
Published on: 30 January, 2018
By: David Torkington
Many years ago Bishop Casey of Brentwood, England, asked me to set up a Residential Retreat and Conference Centre in Chingford, London. He wanted to use it as a place where priests, religious and laity could come to learn about the Biblical Theology that had made the Second Vatican Council possible. I made it my prime…
Mystical Theology and Liturgical Renewal
Published on: 2 November, 2014
By: David Torkington
The most mischievous feature of Quietism was the suspicion that it threw on the contemplative life as a whole