Lessons Learned at Home
David Torkington
July 17, AD2024
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My mother taught me to say my Morning Offering the moment I woke up in the morning. But above all she showed me how to put
Help! Parish Priests to the Rescue
David Torkington
June 2, AD2024
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The Church is in danger of serious decline and I believe the disaster can only be arrested by Parish Priests. After the Second World War
The Easter Mysteries, Pentecost and the Mystic Way
David Torkington
April 28, AD2024
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The very reason why Christ sent out his love on the first Pentecost day was so that it could enter into all who would receive
The Resurrection – Where Time Touches Eternity
David Torkington
March 31, AD2024
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The Resurrection, means that Jesus has been swept up out of the world of space and time in which he’d lived before, not to leave
Lenten Post 8 – My Night in the Holy Sepulchre Part 2
David Torkington
March 29, AD2024
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Part I Let me return to telling the wonderous experience I had in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. After the midnight Office I went
Lenten Post 7 – A Night in the Holy Sepulchre Part 1
David Torkington
March 23, AD2024
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When I was a young man, I received a phone call from Fr Kenneth Campbell, a Franciscan Priest whom I first met after a talk
Lenten Post 6 – The Waiting Game
David Torkington
March 16, AD2024
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St Catherine of Siena said that patience isn’t so much a virtue as the test of all true virtue. If you haven’t any patience at
Lenten Post 5 – Be Prepared to be Purified in Prayer this Lent
David Torkington
March 8, AD2024
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When I first decided to spend my life searching for God I visited the great Carthusian monastery, St Hugh’s Charterhouse, Parkminster in Sussex, Southern England
Lenten Post 4 – Devotion to the Passion of Christ
David Torkington
March 1, AD2024
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A forebear of mine, a Catholic priest called Richard Torkington, was made the Rector of the local Parish by the Lord of the Manor, a
Lenten Post 3 – Christ’s Own Contemplation
David Torkington
February 23, AD2024
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Although it is imperative, particularly during Lent, that all of Christendom must turn back to prayer and without delay, no one seems to be listening.
Lenten Post 2: The Way – A Spiritual Journey
David Torkington
February 16, AD2024
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Christianity was originally called a ‘Way’, or rather, ‘The Way’. In other words, it is a journey, an expedition, a great adventure. And it is
Ash Wednesday – Contemplate and Share its Fruits with Others
David Torkington
February 14, AD2024
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In the early Church, Lent grew out of the final forty days of the two-year preparation for Baptism at Easter, which the first Catechumens were
The One Thing Necessary
David Torkington
January 27, AD2024
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What do we do here and now to live the spirituality that Christ first gave us? Do we need Christ to come again? No, because
The Sacrament of Marriage – Thoughts for the New Year
David Torkington
January 1, AD2024
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A highly educated layman, with more Catholic credentials than I ever came across before, made a statement which simply poleaxed me. He said that he
May Day, May Day, May Day
David Torkington
November 23, AD2023
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Leo Tolstoy said that although Christian intellectuals rise to great heights in almost every branch of secular achievement, there is almost always a serious discrepancy
Knowledge Alone is not Enough
David Torkington
November 6, AD2023
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A Letter to a young mother of four who asked my opinion on the Essence of Mystical Theology. I am sorry I should have clarified
A Letter to a Mother About the Synod on Synodality
David Torkington
October 23, AD2023
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A Letter to a young mother of four who asked my opinion on the current Synod of Synodality which she is finding unfathomable. When I
The Sense of the Sacred – Back to the Faith of Our Fathers
David Torkington
September 26, AD2023
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In a talk that I have just recorded in a series I am giving on prayer, I tell how, as the Director of the Diocesan
Pray As You Can, Not As You Can’t
David Torkington
August 26, AD2023
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During one of my lectures, I was busily boring the class to death with stories of the Desert Fathers when one teenage girl started chanting,
A Pure Heart Only Desires One Thing
David Torkington
July 23, AD2023
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The lecturer I admired most was an existentialist who spent his time trying to convert us to his chosen philosophy. Everything he said seemed to
When You Stop Falling You Will Be in Heaven
David Torkington
June 20, AD2023
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Some weeks ago I went to a special Mass prepared by a group of lay people to ask for God’s mercy on them and their
Giving Back Words their Original Meaning
David Torkington
June 8, AD2023
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The local Parish Prayer Group were celebrating forty years since their foundation and were preparing a special Mass for that purpose. The readings, the psalms
