John Hienen, owner of The Catholic Gentleman, said that often men treat Lent as though it is “extra credit,” as though we are being kind to God by offering Him a little extra. How nice. Lent is not an add-on feature, a bonus segment on a liturgical app, an extra rep, or an extra lap around the track.Lent is essential.You will only have so many Lents—perhaps seventy or eighty for those who are granted a longer life. “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:10)Indeed, how many of these Lents have we embraced to the fullest?

Unmarried men have the potential to be extremely selfish. There is no one depending on them, no child to take care of in the middle of the night, no wife to force compromise on a TV show. Single guys make their own schedule, and even when they do acts of charity or apostolic work, they make it fit into what they want to do.

Unmarried men have the potential to be extremely selfish. There is no one depending on them, no child to take care of in the middle of the night, no wife to force compromise on a TV show. Single guys make their own schedule, and even when they do acts of charity or apostolic work, they make it fit into what they want to do.

There is much talk about being a ‘real man’: the warrior man, the man without emotions or sympathies, the rival of all things deemed weak. Yet this kind of polemic is a form of extremism—and extremism is the devil’s playground. Satan thrives in extremes. He despises virtue and constantly goads us toward deficiency on one side or excess on the other.

The book of Proverbs says that 'Death and life are in the power of the tongue.' As you go about your day, you hear many use their words for good and for bad. Why is it bad? Why are certain words bad? Let's explore this.

To be an authentic man, we must invest in the formation and development of our soul, our skills, our service and our solidarity. These four are the door to having real masculine confidence; security in being the man who God designed us to be.

Scrupulosity is the battle of overfocusing on not doing the wrong thing. Many men struggle with it in our Christian lives. How can we overcome the control that scrupulosity can have over us? It begins with prayer, but it can come through obedience of action and intelligence.

The weapon that we possess and carry to fight evil is the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We, the Church on earth, are the Church militant, who wield the Rosary to draw deeper to God, receive countless graces, and to intercede against the terrors of this world. Let's go to war!