David Torkington

David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker, who specializes in Prayer, Christian Spirituality and Mystical Theology.  He has sold over 400,000 books in more than twelve different languages. His  most recent book The Primacy of Loving, the Spirituality of the Heart was published in the USA on 1st January 2023. His most popular publications are  'Wisdom from the Christian Mystics - How to Pray the Christian Way', 'Wisdom from the Western Isles – The Making of a Mystic’ and ‘Wisdom from Franciscan Italy – The Primacy of Love’. The Catholic Truth Society has published Prayer Made Simple (March 2018), and OSV has published How to Pray in 2021.


His Website in which he blogs, podcasts and publishes his broadcasts and courses on prayer can be found on  https://www.davidtorkington.com


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Latest Articles By David Torkington
It's all in the Trying
It's all in the Trying
The Curé d'Ars said that, “All that we do, without offering it to God, is wasted,” and he is of course right, but it must be emphasized that the Morning Offering isn’t a magic formula. It does not automatically transform the forthcoming day, that’s why something further is required.
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Thank you for being you
Thank you for being you
Instead of ‘Christmas crackers’, the parish priest had bought ‘Christian crackers’ for the parish party. So instead of wearing paper hats, everyone wore paper halos instead and received miniature plastic saints, and instead of side-splitting jokes, they had to meditate on mind-bending religious epigrams.
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First Beginnings
First Beginnings
My first recollections of prayer were of kneeling at my bedside repeating the same set of petitions night after night. God bless Mummy and Daddy, my brothers, and all my aunts and uncles who were mentioned by name. It was only after my cousins were prayed for in order of age that my turn came.
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A Legacy from my Recusant Past
A Legacy from my Recusant Past
On the day when Pope Benedict first used the Internet ‘to tweet’, he was asked by one of his respondents, how can married people, living such busy lives, find time for prayer? He replied –“By offering everything that is said and done each day to God.” First thoughts on waking each morning he said should be to offer the forthcoming day to him.
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The Sacrament of the Present Moment
The Sacrament of the Present Moment
The Mass to inaugurate the Year of Divine Mercy had been prepared by the parishioners with the help of the curate and a group of the Sisters of Mercy. The readings, the psalms and the prayer had all been chosen to echo the overall theme of asking God to give his loving mercy to all those present and to the whole world that would be lost without it.
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From Bethlehem with Love
From Bethlehem with Love
The year was 1220, the place was Egypt, shortly after the siege of Damietta. A small nondescript looking man stood before the Sultan arrayed in all his regal finery. The nondescript man was St Francis of Assisi, the Sultan was Melek-el-Kamel commander of the Islamic army.
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Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass
When I went to midnight Mass it was to realize that I had forgotten Someone else too. Just as my Grandfather had given me all he could to show his love for me, God had done the same.
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The Hound of Heaven
The Hound of Heaven
Before the swinging sixties, before Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, and even before Bill Haley and the Comets had set these Isles throbbing with the sound of Rock ‘n’ Roll, I fell in love for the first time. I was only sixteen, but it was the real thing.
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From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity
Some years ago I had dinner with friends in London. When I was leaving their home I was introduced to the husband’s father, who was busy digging in the garden. Taken by surprise and not knowing what to say I asked a rather stupid question – “And what are you doing?” I said.
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