#380: The Secret to Life-Changing Prayer - David Torkington

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author, Lecturer and Broadcaster who specializes in Prayer, Christian Spirituality and Mystical Theology. For the past fifty years he has been communicating to his audience his profound love of the traditional and authentic Mystical and Biblical Theology that has inspired all his writings on prayer.

During his twelve year s as Director of a London Retreat and Conference Centre , followed by his tenure as the Dean of Studies at the Nation al Catholic Radio and Television Centre in London , he gained direct experience of the decline in the moral and spiritual life of the Church.

After lecturing on Mystical theology at the invitation of the Angelicum, the Dominican University in Rome , he has spent the rest of his life trying to inspire Catholics with the truth. That is to return without delay to the profound contemplative spirituality bequeathed to the early Church by Jesus Christ himself and its development from St Paul , to St Teresa of Avila and St John of the Cross.

He has written ten books on prayer and the spiritual life, some of which have been translated into thirteen languages.

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Website: https://davidtorkington.com
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0:00.0	And now we come to the heart of what it means to be a Christian, to be in prayer, to be in communion with God.
0:17.0	Our guest is author, lecturer, mystic in his own way, David Torkington from England.
0:23.2	David, so good to meet you and see you, sir.
0:26.4	Not at all.
0:27.4	Delighted.
0:29.3	How did you become as you are?
0:31.8	Were you a cradle Catholic? Are you a revert? Oh yes, yes. My my forebears are actually
0:37.4	recousins. I'm a direct descendant of Sir Nicholas Tempest who was hanged, drawn and quartered under Henry the 8th.
0:50.0	Wow.
0:51.0	So all the way through, in fact, funnily enough today, I don't know whether it being put, I've just found some very old prayer books handed down by my records requisite forebears.
1:03.4	So it's very much in my blood, though on my father's side,
1:07.2	he was a convert.
1:08.4	For people unfamiliar with that, recucent identity or tribe what's the what's the what's the
1:16.9	compressed version of that story the compressed version of being a recousant for people who are not familiar with that
1:24.6	Oh yes I'm so sorry the word recousant comes from the Latin meaning to refuse in In other words, the Catholic, when Elizabeth the first insisted that
1:41.6	everybody must go to church in a Protestant, their Protestant parish once a month and and take
1:52.0	communion,
1:53.0	communion, otherwise they would have to pay a tax of 20 pounds.
1:58.0	Now, 20 pounds, 2,000 pounds plus in Elizabethan times. So many of my forebears were taxed out of existence.
2:12.4	And when you've got no more money,
2:14.1	you're thrown into jail.
2:16.1	And of course, the priests who are caught
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