A course in Mystical Theology – Third episode – Back to our Origins
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...
A course in Mystical Theology – Second episode – Back to the Future
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...
A course in Mystical Theology -First episode – One thing to change the world
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...
Ignatian and Carmelite Spirituality – Complementary or Contradictory?
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...
The Morning Offering Transforms the Ordinary
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...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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