Authentically Masculine

Mark Bartek@ SEEK 2019 "Being a Man in a Post-Apocalyptic World"

The hero in Zombie movies is very often a lone ranger

Communion with God

Mark 1:11 "You are by beloved Son. With you I am well pleased"

Adam in the garden created naked and vulnerable after the fall knit together fig leafs

Original Sin is like PTSD for the soul

Therefore we need some tender love and care from our heavenly Father

Comradery with Men

Every man needs a pack to run with

Who is your Simon of Cyrene? Are you willing to be a Simon for someone else? King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Are you willing to run with King Jesus?

Chivalry with Women

Women's lib rejects protection and good manners Be kind and gentle toward all women

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength." St. Francis de Sales

"Husbands are called to love God primarily through their wives. Your wife is the sacrament of Christ to you. You are the sacrament of Christ to your wife.

All of the Baptized are co/led to Chastity

CCC 1832 The fruits of the Spirit are perfections that the Holy Spirit forms in us as the first fruits of eternal glory. The tradition of the Church lists twelve of them: "charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity."

CCC 2349 "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single." Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:

"There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others... This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church." (St. Ambrose of Milan)

THE MAN IN THE ARENA

It is not the critic that counts; not the

man who points out how the strong man

stumbles, or whether the doer of deeds

could have done them better. The credit

belongs to the man who is actually in the

arena, whose face is marred by dust and

sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;

who errs, who comes short again and

again; who spends himself in a worthy

cause; who at the best knows in the end

the triumph of high achievement, and

who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails

while daring greatly, so that his place shall

never be with those cold and timid souls

who neither know victory nor defeat.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT