St Francis of Assisi – Part 9 – The Whole World is a Friary
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. It was here, over 800 years ago that he heard God speaking to him through the Gospels whilst attending Mass. The message was simple –...
St Francis of Assisi – Part 8 – The Gospel Way of Life
Francis chose a very specific way of life in which to embrace ‘Lady Poverty’ and it was quite unique. It was quite simply the way of life as lived by Jesus and his followers before the Resurrection. For him it had three inseparable characteristics. It is an eremitical...
St Francis of Assisi – Part 7 – Lady Poverty
Ever since Charlemagne was enthroned as Holy Roman Emperor in AD 800 Europe gradually became a safer place in which to live. It became increasingly easier to travel and to trade as the centuries rolled by. It was a slow process, but by the time Francis was a young man...
St Francis of Assisi – Part 6 – The Poverello
After Pope Innocent III had approved the rule of life that St Francis had presented to him, the little band of Brothers set out for home. They rejoiced all the way back to Assisi with unalloyed joy, but Pope Innocent’s hopes for the new foundation were not unalloyed....
St Francis of Assisi – Part 5 – The Founder
St Bonaventure described God’s love as ‘a shaft of light that flashes out from the divine darkness’, that suddenly enables believers to see the truth they have never seen before. For the first time they begin to see the truth about themselves that they...Radio Maria England
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David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker.
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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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