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By David Torkington By Marie Ellenreider Kneides (Wikimedia Commons) For many of us the first brief glimpses of God came through His...

By David Torkington   Sometime ago I was speaking about what I called Mystical premonition or touches of God when one of the au...

By David Torkington Byzantine Madonna and Child Of course I can’t remember being conceived nor growing into a baby in my mother’s ...

By David Torkington Pentecost  by El Greco Throughout his life on earth Jesus made it clear that the Kingdom he promised had not...

By David Torkington Interior with Woman Teaching a Child to Pray by Frere (Wikimedia Commons) The first prayer that Jesus would ha...

By David Torkington Pentecost (Painting from an altarpiece, Wikimedia Commons) On the  feast of Pentecost the Jews celebrated the...

By David Torkington St. Francis of Assisi (Wikimedia Commons)   An Examination of Conscience When we begin to experience God m...

  By David Torkington The Triumph of Religion by Overbeck (Wikimedia Commons) As a  person tries to observe the  new commandmen...

By David Torkington Jacob's Ladder in the Via Latina Catacombs (Wikimedia Commons). My earliest and happiest memories  are of goi...

By David Torkington The Ecstacy of St. Francis by El Greco (Wikimedia Commons).   When Christ came, it was to announce somet...