Jesus meets Aristotle

Jesus Meets Aristotle Lecture

Dear OL of the Assumption Parishioners and Friends; Patron Saint of our Diocese of Bridgeport, St. Augustine is essential in understanding our catholic theology and even more so, philosophy. But why? How come, that after 1600 or so years after Augustine became a Bishop and then a Saint of the Catholic Church, we still use many of his ideas, analogies and are so indebted to him for bridging classical antiquity with Catholic faith in Christ Jesus? Perhaps the answer is in the way of how Augustine understands, interprets and adopts many of PLOTINUS (Little Plato) – founder of NEO – PLATONISM, that is a very interesting philosophy with original explanations and theories about God, our Universe, and you and I in it, living out our Human Drama. Therefore, I kindly invite you to come and join our Jesus Meets Aristotle Lecture and Dinner on Thursday, June 11, at 6:00 PM in our Parish Hall. We will attempt to see why PLOTINUS and NEO – PLATONISM influenced St. Augustine so much, and how such influence is present in our Catholic Church even today. Pasta dinner will be served at 6:00 PM and lecture and discussion will follow at 6:30 PM. Water, soda and coffee will be available, if you prefer another beverage, please feel free to BYOB. If you plan on attending, RSVPis required by calling Lisa at the parish office or by email lreed@olaffld.org NO later than Friday, June 5 with your name and the number of people attending. A free will offering will be taking up to help defray the cost of the dinner. Please, join us, for hopefully – interesting lecture over pasta dinner. I would like to personally invite our new parishioners from Holy Family/Saint Emery.

Fr. Mirek