by David Torkington | Feb 5, 2019 | Mystical Theology
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. It was in the words of...
by David Torkington | Dec 7, 2018 | Mystical Theology
Love and Happiness It has always been believed that happiness depends on love more than on anything else. The greater the love, the greater the happiness. Yet for some unaccountable reason it does not always occur to us that, like everything else that is worth...
by David Torkington | Oct 31, 2018 | Mystical Theology
Truth shocks, deceit rarely does! 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. But the devil is the purveyor of...
by David Torkington | Oct 26, 2018 | Mystical Theology
I heard few complaints when it was decided to have a ‘Year of Mercy’. How could anyone complain about a year dedicated to asking God’s mercy on us and on others. After all we are all sinners and Jesus himself was the first to be merciful to sinners...
by David Torkington | Oct 1, 2018 | Mystical Theology
Over thirty years ago, by accident rather than by design, I became aware of the terrible sexual scandals that were in fact to hit the headlines ten or so years later. However, what I discovered was so horrific that nobody would believe me. It was still the policy in...
by David Torkington | Jul 29, 2018 | Mystical Theology
We were all shocked and shattered when my brother announced that he wanted to become a priest. It was not just that he wanted to become a priest, but he wanted to become a Cistercian priest. That meant that once he left home he would never return. Naturally my mother...
