A Course in Mystical Theology – Ninth Episode – Holy Families
You could write me off as an incurable romantic if I told you that I believe in love at first sight? I have not only come across it in fiction but in real life too. In fact, so have you if you have read the Gospels, because I believe that they begin with the best...
A Course in Mystical Theology – Eighth Episode – From Loving to Union
I was hardly out of my pram when World War II began. I may not have any war wounds to brag about but I do have memories, terrible memories of the fear that gripped me when the sirens began to whine. I would hear the planes and the rockets overhead and the sound of the...
A course in Mystical Theology – Seventh episode – The Greatest of all Mystics
It was on the eve of Christmas many years ago that I was told I had failed my religious knowledge examination, and I cried myself to sleep. I was only 10 years old at the time and the news devastated me. It was the worst Christmas I ever had. When asked to explain...
A course in Mystical Theology – Sixth episode – Is Anybody Listening?
Every Monday afternoon at 4.30pm there is a programme on BBC radio 4 called ‘Beyond Belief’. Last week the wife of a Jewish Rabbi said that every day she reads a page of the Talmud. The Talmud is an ancient Jewish book that details the everyday customs and prayers...
A course in Mystical Theology – Fifth episode – With Love all things are possible.
When Bill Haley and his comets introduced ‘Rock and Roll’ into this country in the 1950s the older generation were terrified at what was happening to the younger generation. While most parish priests were condemning the latest musical vandals from America and their...Radio Maria England
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Introduction“Although people go on crying out for solutions they become angry when they are told that the restoration of society must come from within and no...
Episode 1: From Glasgow to Barra![]()
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In the first episode, the hermit, Peter Calvay, introduces himself and describes his spiritual journey which led to him living the eremitical life on a remote island off the Scottish Outer Hebrides. James Robertson, the academic who visits Barra with the intention of seeking spiritual help from Peter, takes up the story. He describes how he came to know of Peter and how he persuaded him to see him over a period of a week. He describes his journey on the island plane landing on the famous cockleshell beach. He arrives filled with expectation of how Peter, the Hermit will change his life over the forthcoming week.
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The hermit, Peter Calvay, introduces himself describes his spiritual journey to the eremitical life on an island off the Outer Hebrides.
David reads from The Hermit. First broadcast on Radio Maria England on 10th January 2021
New Programme: Wisdom from the Western Isles: Part One – The Hermit – Radio Maria England
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David Torkington is an English Spiritual Theologian, author and speaker, specializing in Prayer, Christian Spirituality and Mystical Theology. Educated at the Franciscan Study Centre, England, he serv...
Second talk: From Meditation to the beginning of Mystical Contemplation
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Each morning after his mother's death, David's father brought tea into his bedroom. Sitting on his bed, David's father told him of his love for his mother
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