The Primacy of Personal Prayer
Published on: 6 March, 2020
By: David Torkington
3rd 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.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 14 – Welcome Sister Death
Published on: 17 September, 2018
By: David Torkington
Two years before his death St Francis received the stigmata which we celebrate on the 17th September.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 13 – The Canticle to Brother Sun
Published on: 19 November, 2017
By: David Torkington
After St Francis h received the Stigmata he travelled all the way back to Assisi on a donkey for he could not walk. Nor could he see or hear much, because he was filled with such sublime joy …
St Francis of Assisi – Part 12 – Francis Receives the Stigmata
Published on: 3 November, 2017
By: David Torkington
Francis set out for La Verna, the mountain which had been given to him by Count Orlando dei Cattani as a place of retreat ten years before. It was here that he began to pray as never before…
St Francis of Assisi – Part 11 – A New Rule
Published on: 15 October, 2017
By: David Torkington
“Then Francis lifted up his voice and cried out, ‘Lord answer for me’ and then everyone heard the voice of Christ. ‘Francis there is nothing in this rule of yours that is not mine …..
St Francis of Assisi – Part 7 – Lady Poverty
Published on: 19 January, 2017
By: David Torkington
Ever since Charlemagne was enthroned as Holy Roman Emperor in AD 800 Europe gradually became a safer place in which to live.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 5 – The Founder
Published on: 13 November, 2016
By: David Torkington
St Bonaventure described God’s love as A shaft of light that flashes out from the divine darkness, that suddenly enables a person to see the truth that they had never seen before.
St Francis of Assisi – Part 1 – The Second Christ
Published on: 3 October, 2016
By: David Torkington
For the feast day of St Francis on the 4 October, I am beginning a series of blogs on the life of St Francis of Assisi.
The WholeWorld is a Friary
Published on: 4 October, 2015
By: David Torkington
When St Francis of Assisi had rebuilt a tumbledown little church given to him by the Benedictines, he called it St Mary of the Angels.