Today is the feast day of St. George, so it is special for all of us at St. George parish. Interestingly, many Catholics are embarrassed by St. George. They want to deny that the dragon he slew was real. I do not want to get into the numerous problems with that presumption. Suffice it to say that the stories say that St. George slew a dragon, and only chronological snobbery can allow one to claim he knows what happened 1700 years ago better than the people who were there.
St. George was a soldier. He was a real man, who stood firm on his faith and was willing to die for it. This is the image we need for our young men today. They need to know what a man is and what a woman is (because modernists refuse to tell them). All of our children need the stories about dragons and young maidens being saved from them. We need to take to heart the Scriptures that clearly condemn modernist "gender theories".
Take for example my favorite Scripture in this regard. This verse flies in the face of every heresy that tries to twist the clear distinction between men and women. Some translations (even Catholic!) try to gloss over it. The RSV Catholic Edition, as great as it is in other places, falls a bit short here. In 1 Corinthians 16:13 we read:
"Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong."
The Douay is quite a bit more clear:
"Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened"
Notice that? "Do manfully"! I have pointed out this verse before, and it is helpful for us to consider it in the context of St. George. Let us acknowledge that he "did manfully" and that, even unto his death, he refused to be emasculated by the world around him. Men, stand fast in the faith. Women pray for your men to be godly men. Parents, teach your children what men and women are by God's definition, not the world's distortion. And, above all, throw in a story about St. George killing that (very real) dragon!