The Catholic Gentleman's Guide
Your guide to manly holiness.
…Uncovering the workings of a Gentleman by looking to our Manly Saints.
“In this trying time that our country is going through, we Catholics and especially we students, have a serious duty to fulfill: our self-formation.” “I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw … Read more
Saint Joseph. A man above men and a model of fatherhood and masculinity. He’s certainly a saint for all ages, and he is no less revered in our own age as that perfect model of manly sacrifice and submission to the total will of God. His intercession is powerful and his example as a father … Read more
On October 21, 2001, an estimated 50,000 men, women and children defied threatening weather to crowd St. Peter’s Basilica and Square in Rome as Pope John Paul II declared as “blessed” Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, the first beatified married couple of the Church. To the assembly, the Holy Father stated: “Maria and Luigi were … Read more
LIVING “FROM THE ROOF UP” In her moving work Radiography of a Marriage (1952), Maria wrote: “Since the birth of our first son, we began dedicating ourselves to the children, forgetting ourselves…. In order to love our children more, we tried to better ourselves by correcting our shortcomings and improving our characters…. We both felt … Read more
GOING HOME TO GOD, AND BEATIFICATION As they aged, Luigi and Maria devoted even more time to prayer and contemplation within their home, becoming an example of piety to all who knew them. In 1951, he, Maria and the inseparable Enrichetta spent a last, beautiful day together in the mountains, shortly after which Luigi died … Read more