All Catholic men should regard themselves as Knights, ever ready to stand for Christ and the right, and ever looking out for those who need aid, however small the aid he can offer in a particular situation.
Be a Knight
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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It’s hard to see the graphic, but it’s the outline of a man dressed as a woman.
I give him/her my seat and take the other four people off the subway then phone in a stretch lemo to get us all to our destinations.
Some things are better if they’re not seen at all, for the sake of everyone, but especially for the four suffering souls.
I’ll put it out there that feminism has killed the instinctive natural order for men to be protective of women- pregnant women
and mothers included.
And the phone has been a real destructive tool in that people are either completely unaware or deliberately not noticing that someone less able than them, takes priority. Yes agree that young boys need to be taught chivalry. And all adults (men and women) need to be taught the importance of caring for those less able than themselves. I worry that we are so busy in this day and age that it’s at the bottom of our priorities.
Ideally, all four.
However, I might weenie out and not offer it to either woman. Some days I just don’t have the fortitude to endure the contempt with which such offers are often declined.
I have never encountered that. The women I have extended such courtesies to have always been gracious and grateful. Perhaps I have just been lucky, although I am fairly large and my resting face, to those who do not know my merry self, I have often heard described as stern and forbidding.
Agree completely, Donald. And let’s keep in mind that the custom of genuflecting before the Blessed Sacrament, whether in repose or exposed, is directly adopted from the historical gesture of knights paying homage to their King. We are expected at a minimum to behave as knights, at all times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW0we66d3Hg
More wholesome footage of a gentleman giving up his seat for a lady. The fact that it’s Keanu Reeves makes it only a little bit cooler.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cV9LJmNGCBI
Eh, well, …I have only rarely used public transportation outside of seat-assigned airline tickets.
I took a train/subway from Paris to Versailles and back once. That wasn’t crowded. Most of what I wanted to see in Paris was within tolerable walking distance along the Seine.
..Granted, I saw only a smidgeon of Paris; I needed to burn a week of leave and didn’t have time for thorough research (and hadn’t yet read The DaVinci Code).