God has created me to do Him some definite service

God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments. Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about.

John Henry Newman 

Masculinity. What is it?

Masculinity. 

What is it?

To be a true, good man, is to do the things that a good man does. 

These things are things that a man does better than a woman, or can only do, that a woman cannot do. 

Does this mean that true femininity is to do well the things that women do better than men and that men cannot do. Does this mean that a woman who does not have a baby is not truly feminine? It would seem that way. John Paul II in his theology of the body claims that to be feminine is to bring life into the world, but this could be done by nuns. Not be physically giving birth but by spiritually giving birth and being a mother to those who require it. 

So then what can a man do better than women, and what can only men do?

I'm really stuck at this point. 

Men are on average physcally stronger than women, men can father a child. What does it mean to father, besides at the beginning of conception?

Are we to say priests are not manly? I think this can't be the only thing. 

I think both sexes have dignity and worth because they are loved by God, but what is the particular ways that men are called to participate in this world?

Sometimes they say that women reproduce, as in children, and men produce as in work. 

God is a Father. What does he do as Father that I can learn about? To help the family. To look after it. 

Is it something to do with sport? With tradework - with changing a tyre. With making money?

Podcast - This Catholic Life Podcast -  Australia - 19/08/2020

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Spirituality of the 12 Steps

This is amazing

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