{"id":2865,"date":"2007-10-03T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2013-07-22T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:30:53","slug":"becoming-a-real-man-of-god-by-fr-roger-landry-for-the-knights-of-columbuss-veritas-series-proclaiming-the-faith-in-the-third-millennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/becoming-a-real-man-of-god-by-fr-roger-landry-for-the-knights-of-columbuss-veritas-series-proclaiming-the-faith-in-the-third-millennium\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Real Man of God, by Fr. 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It frequently makes for good humor; but how much does it accurately portray real men, the men we are, the men we know, our brother Knights? In a society of \u201cmetrosexuality,\u201d many men are today seeking an authentic spirituality and a path to Godliness that takes into account the spirituality of their maleness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecoming a Real Man of God\u201d explores the life of manly virtue and the offers suggestions for reclaiming authentic masculinity in modern society today.<\/p>\n<p>Father Landry covers the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Showing Oneself a Strong, Faithful Man of God<\/li>\n<li>Back to the beginning<\/li>\n<li>Real love<\/li>\n<li>Men and women love differently<\/li>\n<li>Saint Joseph as an icon of authentic masculine love<\/li>\n<li>The virtues of a soldier of Christ<\/li>\n<li>Forming virtuous, masculine men<\/li>\n<li>The perversion of masculinity<\/li>\n<li>First Challenge: Our culture no longer cultivates responsibility in young men<\/li>\n<li>Second Challenge: The culture of irresponsibility in sexuality<\/li>\n<li>Third challenge: An increased effeminacy in our culture<\/li>\n<li>Fourth challenge: The push to normalize homosexual behavior<\/li>\n<li>The Good News for a recovery of authentic masculinity in our modern societies<\/li>\n<li>The sacramental spiral<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>To read the full e-booklet, please click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/resources\/cis\/cis322.pdf\">http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/resources\/cis\/cis322.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To listen to the audio book, please click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/cis\/audio\/322.html\">http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/cis\/audio\/322.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming a Real Man of God Father Roger Landry 2007 Father Roger Landry was asked by the Knights of Columbus to write this booklet for men.\u00a0 It is part of the Knights of Columbus\u2019s Veritas Series \u201cProclaiming the Faith in the Third Millennium.\u201d\u00a0 The General Editor of the Series is Father Juan-Diego Brunetta, O.P., the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2013],"tags":[8712,1213,1214],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality-of-men","tag-8712","tag-knights-of-columbus","tag-proclaiming-the-faith-in-the-third-millennium"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Becoming a Real Man of God, by Fr. 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