Work will take everything you give it. Give it enough and it will be the black hole that swallows your prayer, peace, and your marriage.   Today we discuss Ora et Labora, the ancient rhythm of prayer and work that St. Benedict modeled his life after. We explain why work can feel like a curse, the difference between your occupation and your vocation, why good men get addicted to the office, and what St. Gregory the Great named as the hardest labor of all.

In one way or another, we fathers have to contend with the question of modesty in dress. I hope to formulate the concept of modesty in a positive light, as a virtue by which we show respect to that which deserves respect, a virtue that makes use of hiddenness to show forth the resplendence of […]

The Culture of Death is not random. There’s an intelligence behind it and your home is the first target. We dive deep with philosophy professor, Dr. John Cuddeback, into why you are so busy it hurts, and why you try so hard to “keep work at work” without realizing this could be hurting your family. Being pulled in different directions and looking for one simple solution is not the answer. The devil slowly seeps into the ordinary life of a family’s home, and we show how to prevent it.

Most men feel it before they can name it. That slow, quiet sense that life is just happening to you. Work has become a treadmill, marriage a parallel operation, faith something rote and obligatory. John Heinen and Devin Schadt go deep on what's actually behind male drift and why the standard diagnosis misses the real problem entirely. They trace how the invention of adolescence quietly dismantled the rite of passage from boyhood to manhood, why 59% of men between 24 and 29 don't actually feel like adults, and how men have been inheriting that deficit ever since. Today we unpack the distinction between vocation and occupation and why a man who has traded the first for the second will always feel like something is missing, no matter how much he achieves. We discuss Aquinas on the order of charity, what it means to have solid convictions versus just ambition, why hope requires something genuinely difficult to be real, and what St. Ambrose meant when he said the man rightly called a king is the one who makes his own body an obedient subject.

It is no exaggeration to say that it comes down to one thing: your morning routine. As a house is built upon a solid foundation, the days of your life are erected upon your daily morning routine. Conversely, if your house has a foundation wall that is bowing or buckling, it will eventually settle and perhaps collapse. As a car rides on four tires, your days will ride on your mornings. Again, if just one of your car’s four tires is flat, your vehicle will not drive. Therefore, if you do not have a solid, consistent, life-giving morning routine, like that car, your life will go nowhere. Your mornings determine your days, and your days determine your months, and your months determine your years, and your years determine your legacy. Conversely, your grand vision of your life depends on the smallest of factors—how you begin your day, everyday.