‘As iron sharpens iron,
so one man sharpens another.’
(Proverbs 27.17)
‘For freedom
Christ has set us free’
We yearn to become men of integrity — faithful husbands and fathers, powerful leaders, formidable opponents of evil. Christ has set us free for precisely this freedom (Gal. 5:1).
Why, then, do we find ourselves still bound in many domains?
Noble intentions do not make a man any more than passion for sport makes an Olympian. All power is given us by nature and by grace, but it must be forged — the man must train, so that like St. Paul we may say,
‘I do not run aimlessly,
I do not box as one beating the air,
but I discipline my body and master it,
lest after preaching to others
I myself should be disqualified.’
(1 Cor. 9:27-8)
We have the key: two thousand plus years of inspired wisdom — the incomparable inheritance of Christian tradition. Over centuries this tradition has been distilled and honed into a definitive map for human flourishing.
It is ours by birthright. And it is that that will set us free to live the fulness of our humanity, the fulness of our masculinity.
Join us as we flesh out the meaning of authentic manhood — the heart and strength of which is virtue — and become the men God created us to be.
The blacksmith Willie Roche (1918—2007)
at his forge in Belcarra, Co. Mayo.
He was a man of stature—in body and soul.