Posted on 04/26/2005 10:40:51 PM PDT by Cato1
Amen
Not at the church I attend (Latin Novus Ordo). Nor at many TLMs.
What's great about this is they honestly believe there is some kind of idiotic feminist revolution going on in the church. They seriously believe they are effecting change. LOL! That's like me sitting in my home saying I secede from the United States and telling no one. Not actually doing anything. Morons. Let them wallow in their pride and foolishness. They, like all of us, will answer to Him at the end of days.
"Cosi s'osserva in me lo contrapasso."
This isn't men bashing, it really isn't. I hope that they take back their rightful place at the helm.
Women who think they're smarter than men are out of their minds. The feminists jumped ugly, and the men said 'ok, we'll do it your way.' And to quote a country song, they got the gold mine, the feminists got the shaft.
The awe and beauty of the masculine was on display on and after 9/11. We need a lot more of that type of courage and strength, and not just when tragedy strikes. In the laity, we need men to take a serious lead. I'm not sure it's reclaimable at this point. Time will tell.
But I know what you mean. Too many mized marriages and broken homes.
Men find repulsive, as a general rule, the hand-holding kumbaya and homilists who preach love, love, love. Find a real church and you'll find real men. A poofter in the pulpit and no real men. We believe in struggling for God.
Kumbaya-loving men are ball-less, following their wives to church.
JMHO.
I think it's now starting to take on physical characteristics, becoming part of their DNA. What characteristics? Wide hips and plump pecs!
BTW, perhaps you've already read it, but a great little book on the subject of masculine Christianity is Man, The Saint, by Fr. J. Urteaga Loidi.
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