User:Sophroniscus
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[edit] Who am I?
Sophroniscus was the father of Socrates...
I am simply a Roman Catholic, a Lay Carmelite, who some twenty years ago discovered the beauty of the Byzantine Catholic Church. I instantly fell in love with the singing. I had attended the Divine Liturgy there ever since until February 2005, when I started attending a Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
It is my desire that all that I do should be marked with great equanimity. It is better to let the nations rage than to be dragged down into their errors. For God has abandoned the world to its darkness.
[edit] The love of wisdom
I have a lively interest in the love of wisdom, especially in the link between the Categories and the Elements and the link between the Soul and the chakras.
I am fascinated by the strange views of western philosophy, and how the West views Eastern thought. We say that the Greek philosophers were Western. But we say that the Greek Church is Eastern. How completely absurd! Personally, I draw the line between East and West the way the Romans did it, between the two empires, East and West. Christianity originated in Palestine, an Eastern country. It has much in common with Semitic and Greek thought. It is therefore an Eastern Religion. In the same way, the Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and all the rest were clearly Eastern. Reading them in this way makes an enormous difference in the way one understands them.
The position of Aristotle in Western philosophy is of particular interest, for he is called, not "a philosopher" but "The Philosopher," an absurd appellation. At the time, of course, the Scholastics of the West knew virtually nothing about Plato. They blindly supposed that Aristotle's criticism of Plato was absolutely true. In the Neo-Platonic schools on the other hand, Aristotle's works were studied as the "lesser mysteries" while Plato's works were studied as the "greater mysteries."
[edit] Contributions
I have created the entries below...
Aleixo de Menezes Blessed Alphonsa Blessed Joseph Vaz Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Christifideles Coonan Cross Oath Eastern Religion Economia Economy of Salvation Gehanta Holy Qurbana Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari Infant Communion Lailat al-Ma'raj Lay Carmelites Ochus Bochus Our Lady of Mount Carmel Precious Blood Presanctified Liturgy Sacred Mysteries Sacramental matter and form Sacraments of Initiation Saint Simon Stock Synod of Diamper Thabilitho The Egoscue Method Third order Western Religion Words of Institution
I've made minor changes to the entries below...
Altar stone Antimension Ave verum corpus Baptism Circle of fifths Communion for the Disabled Community Comparative religion Consecration Divine Liturgy Eastern Roman Empire Epiclesis First Communion Ghost Festival Goa Inquisition Great and Holy Friday Gregory Dialogus Hierarchical Communion Historical roots of Catholic Eucharistic theology Kottayam Menezes Saint Thomas Christians Syrian Malabar Nasrani Orientalium Ecclesiarum Paedo-Baptism Oratorians Saint Philip Neri Saint Pope Pius X Prayer of the Heart Prayer rope Roman Missal Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Talk:Jyeshta Western Roman Empire
I also created a category for...
Oratorians
[edit] The Maronite connection
Once, some years ago, I had occasion to visit the city where I was born. It was a business trip. But I took the time one night to visit my godparents in the company of my aunt. As we were waiting for dinner we engaged in some pleasant conversation. My aunt (God rest her soul) took the occasion to point out how my godparents needed to pray for their wayward godson. She said that I attended a Byzantine Catholic church, and so was doomed to suffer in hell for all eternity. I corrected her, pointing out that Canon Law explicitly allows one to attend the Divine Liturgy in any Catholic rite.
She was not impressed by my argument, however.
After dinner my godfather told me that he was pleased by my choice of churches. For he and his wife were Maronite Catholics! To think that at my Baptism I had been entrusted in a special way to these Eastern-Rite Catholics -- it is more than I can understand. Surely, the Holy Spirit has a sense of humor... --Sophroniscus 22:10, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
