Vaterlose Erziehung: Die Rolle der Moral und Religion

Our culture has lost the father. Not the biological father, but the symbolic father – the one who establishes order, boundaries, and meaning. In modern times, the image of the father has been eroded by mockery, mistrust, and indifference. The paternal figure – once the guardian of values, teacher of discernment, and guardian of the threshold – has been replaced by care, but no longer by education.

And behold, I will send a curse upon the land; it will consume the house of the thief and destroy the house of the perjurer. (Zechariah 5:4)

Fatherless Society - Feminization of Culture

In its supposed liberation from authority, culture has disarmed itself. The man, the father, the teacher – all those who should lead have become observers. The result is a feminization of culture, in which compassion and conformity seem more important than truth and poise. But what was intended as gentleness has become weakness; and what was praised as equality destroyed the order that protects both sexes.

Thus, a generation grew up that doesn't rebel because it has no values against which to stand up. It is disoriented because it has never felt that boundaries mean love.

The Fallen Son

For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and every son whom he accepts he scourges. (Hebrews 12:6)

Parzival was a son without a father. His mother kept him away from the sword, from the world, from battle. She wanted to protect him—and made him weak. Thus, Parzival represents the modern man who grows up without paternal guidance: full of longing, but without direction.

He leaves his mother's house and goes out into the world, naive and unprepared. His mistakes are not evil—they are the consequences of a lack of education. Only through pain, error, and guilt does he find maturity. Only when he learns to ask what he never dared to ask—"Whom does the Grail serve?"—does he grow up.

Thus, Parzival becomes the image of every son who must learn that love means not protection, but testing.

The Return of the Symbolic Father

I will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. (Malachi 3:24)

The healing of our culture begins with the return of the father. Not with force, but with spiritual authority. The father is not the tyrant, but the guardian of meaning. He educates by providing guidance, by setting an example, by connecting the child with heaven.

A father who no longer educates but merely accompanies abandons his office.
Education is an act of sacrifice: It means that the father is willing to be loved or hated, depending on what truth demands. For a father who only wants to be popular is not a father, but a friend.

Without a moral foundation, without values, without religion, no child can become free.
Self-determination without guidance is an illusion. Only those who have learned to distinguish between good and evil can choose. Only those who know heaven recognize the abyss.

Therefore, every father must raise their children religiously again—not in dogma, but in spirit:
Teach the child that there is an order that is above them. That life is not arbitrary, but a task.

Piety and Chastity—Sanctified Sexuality

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. (Matthew 5:8)

At the heart of true education are piety and chastity. Not as narrowness, but as dignity. Not as oppression, but as the reconnection of the body to the spirit.

Modern culture has separated sexuality from the soul—and thereby degraded it. Man seeks in the body what can only be healed in the spirit. But if the father remains silent and the son does not learn that love is holiness, then desire becomes addiction and freedom becomes imprisonment.

Chastity is not a denial of life, but its consecration. It teaches that the holy dwells within man—even in the body. A pure person is not untouched, but conscious. He knows that love is sacrifice and that piety is the gateway to beauty.

Where chastity reigns, sexuality is sanctified and honored. It becomes what it originally was: a symbol of the union between man and God, man and woman, heaven and earth.

Thus, wounded femininity is also healed—not through power, but through reverence. When the man is pious again, the woman is honored again. When the father prays again, the mother is consecrated again. The restoration of chastity is therefore the restoration of order between the sexes.

The New Knight

Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong! (1 Corinthians 16:13)

The New Evangelization, as carried out by the Nigredo Monastery, is the revival of the fatherly spirit. It calls not for priests who comfort, but for fathers who lead. Not for theologians who debate, but for monks who teach through their being.

The young man who enters here is not meant to be a student of the world, but a student of heaven. He learns to wield the sword of the Word, which separates what is true from what is convenient. He learns that gentleness is not cowardice, and authority is not harshness, but power in love.

Thus, the man becomes a father again—in himself, in his family, in the Church, in the world.

The Rebirth of the Spirit

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. (1 John 2:13)

When fathers become fathers again, children heal. When men lead again, sons learn to lead themselves. And when religion is once again at the heart of education, a generation is born that is truly free—because it knows what responsibility means.

Just as Parzival finds the father within himself at the end of his journey, so every man must recognize the divine Father within himself. For only those who submit to this higher Father can become fathers themselves.

The culture that has fled its fathers can only be renewed by fathers who turn back to God.

Then fatherlessness becomes a homecoming – chaos becomes order – the son becomes a man.