"Any man can be thrown from an untamed horse, but it takes a real man to get back on and tame it."
Just wanted to be on the record with that.
Me too. We need the men to be lectors and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion if they are used in your church. Plus the role model they set for their children by assisting with some part of the Mass is priceless.
"Any man can be thrown from an untamed horse, but it takes a real man to get back on and tame it."
But, I have to say that the higher ups in the church aren't really interested in manliness. It sometimes seems to me that they are trying to destroy manliness as quickly as possible. They, in a subsequent post, are more interested in nonexistent climate change than in what they preach from the pulpit.
Just wanted to be on the record with that.
I am sure we are all for masculinity. We have a problem, however. Some say there is a war on women. My opinion is, there is a war on men going on, especially a war on conservative men. Each one of us feels like we are individuals, going up against the the entire weight of the government. It seems like when men assert their masculinity, the government is there to squash them like bugs.
Now, the Duke lacrosse players may not be a good example of this, but it is indicative of the mindset of the government, in relation to conservative men. They want us all emasculated. My sister told me, she feels the ones who will save conservative men, are conservative women.
Just my opinion. Your thoughts?
As is my wife - one of her favorite sets of verses as far as husbands and wives is Ephesians 5:22-33
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
One of the things about these verses is that it makes an obvious distinction between a man and a woman when it tells each to do what the other is more prone to do, and value, by nature - it tells women to respect and men to love.