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David Torkington

London
As seen in: LifeSiteNews.com, Lew Rockwell, The Imaginative Conservative, Crisis Magazine, Catholic Exchange, OSV News, Catholic Stand, Cause Action, ClarioNews FreeRead, The Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana and
Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Writer and Author who specialises in Prayer, Christian Spirituality, and Mystical Theology.
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Marcus Aurelius Rides Again

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By David Torkington
| The Imaginative Conservative Verified
It is important to remember that St Thomas Aquinas said the vocation of God’s apostles in every age is to contemplate and then share the fruits of contemplation with others. When we all start to do this then we will be back on the road to do what God had created us for in the beginning.
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Christ-Centered Catholic Spirituality as Practiced in the Early Church: From Meditation to Contemplation

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By David Torkington
| Crisis Magazine Verified
The birth of the Church took place on the first Pentecost Day when the Holy Spirit came down onto and into Our Lady and the apostles before 9 o’clock in the morning. Because Our Lady was Immaculately Conceived, there were no barriers in her to prevent the Holy Spirit totally possessing her and therefore reuniting her with her beloved Son—now Risen and glorified—in a way that would not be possible for the apostles, as we shall see.
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St Francis of Assisi – The Desire for Martyrdom

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By David Torkington, Christian Spirituality
| Catholic Stand Verified
For the first three centuries after the death of Christ, martyrdom came to be seen as the perfection of the Christian life. Asceticism came to be seen as the preparation for it, so that a believer would be ready and prepared for what came to be called ‘the final sacrament of love’. Martyrdom was for the early Christians the sign of the perfect disciple, the sign of perfect imitation and the sign of perfect identity with the Risen One.
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