The Catholic Gentleman's Guide
Your guide to manly holiness.
…Understanding and Living out Manly Virtue.
Prudence is one of the four Cardinal Virtues. If you read the last post in this series, you’d remember that Cardinal Virtues are known as Hinge Virtues because all other human and moral virtues pivot upon them. This means that if we want to be growing in virtue as Catholic Gentlemen, we’d better understand the four Cardinal Virtues so … Read more
Any guesses where this is going? If you’re a Latin guru then you may know that the Latin term for “hinge” is cardo, cardinis. From this is related the Latin adjective cardinalis which is defined as “serving as a pivot upon which something depends.” In English, a great word that embodies this concept is pivotal, which takes … Read more
Catholic Gentleman’s Guide is about guiding you to holiness through your everyday tasks as Catholic Men. Well, summer has some great and amazing things to offer you, that will not only increase your Manliness, but also your Holiness. Here are the top 5 Masculine things to do this summer! Barbecuing: If your BBQ was like mine, it … Read more
Faith, Hope, and Charity are those superstar virtues that are provided to us by God to enrich and fulfill our lives. They are also those three virtues that we gift directly back to God, because all three, Faith, Hope, and Charity, were designed to have God, our Heavenly Father, as their focus and object. A virtue just can’t … Read more
< Continued From Part 1 Hope that triumphs both discouragement and abandonment is the Theological Hope in God that we are meant to live out in our Manly lives. Life throws us discouragement, frustration, disappointment, sadness, anger, ….abandonment…. And sometimes we’re close to throwing in the towel with God. Sometimes we do throw in the towel. We … Read more