A Course in Mystical Theology – Seventeenth Episode – The One Thing Necessary
Published on: 15 August, 2022
By: David Torkington
When the Church was born on the first Pentecost day it was as poor as Christ when he was born on the first Christmas day.
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…
Pentecost – The Coming of the Kingdom
Published on: 10 June, 2014
By: David Torkington
Throughout his life on earth Jesus made it clear that the Kingdom he promised had not yet come . The question is then, when would this kingdom come? St John gives us the answer, as an aside when Jesus was celebrating the feast of the Tabernacles. It was the final day called ‘The Day of…