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 – Thirtieth Episode – From Mysticism to Moralism
Published on: 13 March, 2023
By: David Torkington
The new activity centred congregations founded in and after the sixteenth century were in such a hurry to get out into the fray that they were not fully equipped for the task ahead of them. They were over eager to win back the Church from the Protestant heresy, win for the Church new converts, evangelise …
A Course in Mystical Theology – Twelfth Episode – The Curse of Quietism
Published on: 7 June, 2022
By: David Torkington
The Mass for which my ancestors suffered and died in penal times was represented in a new and glorious liturgy at the Council of Trent.
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.