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)