A Course in Mystical Theology – Twentyfirst Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 4
Let me continue my blueprint for prayer. I have already used each letter of the word OUR to help us with Morning Prayer. I will now  use each letter of the word FATHER to help us with evening prayer.  An Act of Faith The letter ‘F’ can remind us to start by making an...
A Course in Mystical Theology – Twentieth Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 3
I would like to continue using each letter of the OUR FATHER as a reminder of the nine indispensable ingredients of daily prayer, by turning to the letter ‘U’. This letter will remind us of the profound context in which the Morning Offering that we have just made...
A Course in Mystical Theology – Nineteenth Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer PART 2
Repentance – Part 2 Just before the first Christians followed the advice of St Peter and were baptised to receive the same Holy Spirit that he and the other apostles had received, St Peter told them to do something else. He told them to repent. The Aramaic word...
A Course in Mystical Theology – Eighteenth Episode – A Blueprint for Prayer 1
After the Holy Spirit was sent on the first Pentecost day, the new born Church of just over 3,000 men and women can be seen in its utter simplicity. All the external paraphernalia that we associate with the Church today simply did not exist. What did exist was a group...
A Course in Mystical Theology – Seventeenth Episode – The One Thing Necessary
When the Church was born on the first Pentecost day it was as poor as Christ when he was born on the first Christmas day. It had nothing but love. But that love was more than enough because it was the love of God, his Holy Spirit which poured out upon it and into it,...Radio Maria England
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David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker.
True Catholic mystical prayer is God-centred. It is not the pursuit of self-gratifying psychological states, or esoteric experiences through man-made techniques to attain instant ‘mysticism’.
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Christian Spirituality was first lived by Jesus Christ himself before it was introduced into the early Church.
Episode 1: From Glasgow to Barra
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 motherSubscribe to Podcasts
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