The Primacy of Personal Prayer
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.
Paving the Way to Meeting the Hermit
This series in story form sums up this great romance, this 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.
Into the Redeeming Christ – The Adventure begins
This series in story form sums up this great romance, this great adventure. It details all that the author has written on prayer and mystical contemplation.
When you stop falling you will be in heaven
Some weeks ago I went to a special Mass prepared by a group of laypeople to ask for God’s mercy on them and on their families as part of their preparation for Lent .
Contrast and Compare: Contemplation and its Counterfeit
‘Contrast and compare’ was a commonly used phrase used by the teachers who set our examination papers when I was at school. It is one of the best ways of highlighting and explaining a word or a truth by differentiating it from another, especially its opposite.
The Power of Love – Where Love is there is God
It was a sort of ‘Dorian Gray’ situation, where his mother took the place of his own decaying portrait.
Are You a Christian Stoic? True Imitation of Christ
While still at school I went on a moral leadership course run by a group of priests. The priest in charge explained that Jesus was the embodiment of all true virtue.
God has Chosen to Become Man and Make His Home Within us
Of the whole gamut of myths, legends and fairy tales that have been told in human history,
‘My Soul Thirsts for God, For the Living God’
I am as delighted as all other orthodox Catholics that the Spanish Bishops have spoken out against all forms of prayer involving Eastern meditation techniques
The Essence of Prayer – Gently Trying
Prayer is a process of continual inner conversion that involves gently trying to turn, open and surrender the heart to God
Learning How to Pray takes Time and Practice
Although we do not like to admit it, even to ourselves, we still believe that prayer happens suddenly, or never happens at all.
To Contemplate and Share the fruits of Contemplation with others
Shock, horror! I have just received a devastating email from a one-time fan to say that in my most recent article, ‘some of the stuff’ I wrote before was repeated.
The Easter Mysteries and The Mystic Way
The very reason why Christ sent out his love on the first Pentecost day was so that it could enter into all who would receive it.
Early Christian Spirituality – The Fruits of Contemplation
Bishop Casey of Brentwood appointed me director of his retreat and conference centre in North London, Walsingham House, owned by Dominican sisters.
The Most Heinous Sin of All
If I had not been working for several organisations in the USA for the past six years I might have thought Archbishop Vigano’s letters referred to in the Catholic media, as way over the top,
Moral Theology and Mystical Theology – Introducing Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
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.
With Thanks to Sister Wendy Beckett
This is the first year that I did not have a Christmas Card from Sr Wendy Beckett.
From Bethlehem to Greccio with St Francis of Assisi
Throughout his life St Francis was consumed by a desire to give his life for Christ.
The Demise of Mystical Theology
It has always been believed that happiness depends on love more than on anything else. The greater the love, the greater the happiness.
The Elephant in the Room that Threatens to bring our Church to its knees
Since the age of eight my closest friend was, what later came to be called ‘gay’.
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David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker.
Second talk: From Meditation to the beginning of Mystical Contemplation
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David Torkington podcasts now available
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The two part interview I did with David Torkington, an author and expert on Christian mystical prayer, is now available on the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society website at www.acsociety.org/podcasts. ...To complement my series on spiritualdirection.com and more to come
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The first of a series of talks on a Retreat on Mystical Prayer 1. Introduction to Journeying deeper. Gregorian Chant sung by monks of Belmont Abbey.Subscribe to Podcasts
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