For the Love of Sophia

[arisbe]

I was exchanging comments with weret_hekau about my little church on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, the Russian visionary and philosopher who to some extent inspired the ecclesiastical reunion of which it is a forerunner, and the female aspect of God to whom he was devoted, and with whom he had his three visionary meetings.

Here are some links I found:

The Sophia Foundation
J. Boehme and the Russian Sophiological Current, by N. A. Berdyaev
Introduction to Sophiology, from The Truth of Orthodoxy Page

Comments

[scythrop.livejournal.com]

I have been meaning to mention that I walked by your church a couple of weeks ago when I was in New York. It's beautiful. I wish I could have peeked in or looked at the architecture in more detail, but there was a very active street festival going on.

The architecture

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Is fairly functional. It was built as the chancery office for Old St. Patrick's Cathedral on the other side of the graveyard.

Indeed, Archimandrite Serge of Dublin claims he has the oldest family connection to St. Michael's because the business address on the deed to the family plot in Queens is that of the old chancery.

We did have some folks keeping the place open for the festival, and even a card table where you could by icons -- of the last Tsar and his wife!

Re: The architecture

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to make it a point to check it out next time I'm in Little Italy.