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 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 | Dec 7, 2018 | Mystical Theology
Love and Happiness It has always been believed that happiness depends on love more than on anything else. The greater the love, the greater the happiness. Yet for some unaccountable reason it does not always occur to us that, like everything else that is worth...
by David Torkington | Oct 31, 2018 | Mystical Theology
Truth shocks, deceit rarely does! It is said that those who have been uncovering the truth about the corruption in the Church, most particularly in high places, are the instruments of the devil because they scandalize the faithful. But the devil is the purveyor of...