{"id":14085,"date":"2021-12-12T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=14085"},"modified":"2021-12-26T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T03:29:20","slug":"st-paisios-brotherhood-orthodox-mens-group-challenges-men-to-recover-authentic-manhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/st-paisios-brotherhood-orthodox-mens-group-challenges-men-to-recover-authentic-manhood\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paisios Brotherhood: Orthodox Men&#8217;s Group Challenges Men to Recover Authentic Manhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450.jpg\" alt=\"St. Paisios Brotherhood: Orthodox Men Group Challenges Men to Recover Authentic Manhood\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450-768x407.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>The Brotherhood of St. Paisios &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>The first goal is purity of heart, growth into real manhood, the acquisition of virtue, the strengthening of manly character.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brotherhood exists so that we can learn how to become men. Our Lord needs men to be men. Real men will be able to withstand the assaults of the enemy and reveal Truth to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on this men. Don\u2019t be drawn into the illusion that the battle is about polemics. Polemics has a place, sometimes an important place, but the first goal is purity of heart, growth into real manhood, the acquisition of virtue, the strengthening of manly character. <!--more-->That\u2019s what the Brotherhood is about and that is what we are going to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The Brotherhood of St. Paisios<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpaisiosbrotherhood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Paisios Brotherhood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fstpaisiosbrotherhood%2Fvideos%2F228808619061162%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"384\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450.jpg\" alt=\"St. Paisios Brotherhood: Orthodox Men Group Challenges Men to Recover Authentic Manhood\" width=\"850\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/St-Paisios-Brotherhood_02_850x450-768x407.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brotherhood of St. Paisios &#8211; The first goal is purity of heart, growth into real manhood, the acquisition of virtue, the strengthening of manly character. The Brotherhood exists so that we can learn how to become men. Our Lord needs men to be men. Real men will be able to withstand the assaults of &#8230; <a title=\"St. Paisios Brotherhood: Orthodox Men&#8217;s Group Challenges Men to Recover Authentic Manhood\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/st-paisios-brotherhood-orthodox-mens-group-challenges-men-to-recover-authentic-manhood\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about St. Paisios Brotherhood: Orthodox Men&#8217;s Group Challenges Men to Recover Authentic Manhood\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,15,5,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity","category-orthodox-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}