Confirmatory Signs of the Mystic Way

By |2026-02-28T19:34:59-06:00February 21st, 2026|Categories: Books, Christianity, David Torkington, Love, Mysticism, Prayer, St. John of the Cross, The Primacy of Loving|

Who would not get depressed when it seems you are unable to pray anymore, and the Scriptures that meant so much before move you no more, and your moral behaviour seems to be deteriorating with each passing day? It is essential that, at a time when it is so difficult to find a competent spiritual [...]

The Dark Night of the Soul

By |2026-02-07T20:41:58-06:00January 31st, 2026|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, David Torkington, Love, Mysticism, Prayer, Sainthood, St. John of the Cross, The Primacy of Loving|

All must go through purification to attain union with God. In this life it is called the Dark Night of the Soul; in the next life, it is called Purgatory. No one can avoid it. Mystical theology teaches how this purification is brought about in this life. When studying Philosophy, I had a brief flirtation [...]

A Passage Through the Jordan to Life

By |2026-01-20T16:04:30-06:00January 20th, 2026|Categories: Audio/Video, Catholicism, Christianity, Gospel Reflection, Sainthood, St. John of the Cross|

Matthew 3: 13-17 recounts the episode of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan at the hands of his cousin John the Baptist. How strange are the paths of the Lord! Behold John, six months the elder of Jesus, sent before Him to make straight His paths, whose sandals he was not fit to loose, now performing [...]

Teacher of God’s Transcendence

By |2026-01-17T20:56:46-06:00January 17th, 2026|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Cluny, Nature of God, Nature of Man, Sainthood, St. John of the Cross|

Saint John of the Cross restores, to a world which had nearly lost it, a sense of the transcendence of Almighty God. This is not to say that he loses sight for a moment of the Divine immanence, a subject which no mystical work treats with more delicacy and insight than the Spiritual Canticle. But [...]

From Darkness to Light

By |2026-01-31T20:55:51-06:00January 17th, 2026|Categories: Christianity, David Torkington, Love, Mysticism, Prayer, St. John of the Cross, The Primacy of Loving|

It was after about eighteen months of perseverance that something quite dramatic happened. Not only that but it was quite evident to me that it was not the “numinous” that I was experiencing, but it was God, at least the experience of his love that was enveloping me. The whole atmosphere at the student house [...]

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