by David Torkington | Mar 12, 2022 | Mystical Theology
Fr Gabriel Reidy OFM was the most erudite man I have ever met. His advice set me back on the right path for the rest of my life. Later in an oral examination he asked me whether or not lay spirituality was originally monastic, or mendicant spirituality that had...
by David Torkington | Feb 24, 2022 | Mystical Theology
Everybody has bees in their bonnets. Fr Tetlow, an English diocesan priest who taught me classics at school, had one bee in his bonnet that would sting him at least once a term as he was teaching us Greek and ancient history. “Gentlemen”, he would say, “Everyone can...
by David Torkington | Feb 17, 2022 | Mystical Theology
The letter was direct and to the point. I was given the sack and would have to vacate the property by the first of January 1981. Although I was made the Director of what was then the only Retreat and Conference centre in London by Bishop Casey twelve years before, the...
by David Torkington | Feb 9, 2022 | Mystical Theology
When an ancient sage was asked if he could do just one thing to change the world for the better, he said that he would give back to words their true meaning. Unfortunately I cannot do that, but I would like to give back to just one word its true meaning because our...
by David Torkington | Nov 20, 2021 | Mystical Theology
In order to shed some light on the complementarity between Ignatian and Carmelite Spirituality that is being discussed at present I would like to say a few words to avoid confusion. The Black Death or the Plague (1348-1350) was so horrific, so widespread and so...
by David Torkington | Dec 14, 2020 | Mystical Theology
Less than ten years before Constantine granted religious tolerance to all in the Roman Empire, one of the last of the Christian Martyrs, St Euplius, was tortured and scourged like Christ before him, and finally beheaded. All this took place in Catania in Sicily by...