The Forge with Tomas Mones-Cazon

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  What Hitting Snooze Says About You as a Man 21.09.2026 10min

  If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Most men think vice is a bad habit they can drop with one good decision. It isn't. Every sin you repeat leaves a mark on how you think, what you crave, and how much of the truth you can still see. Ten or twenty years of small compromises can't be undone by a single burst of willpower.In this video I react to a clip from Jordan Peterson on the Chris Williamson podcast about the "10,000 micro retreats" that corrupted the universities, and I apply it to the spiritual life. Peterson watched faculty fold to the administration one small demand at a time. The same thing happens to a man's soul.Custody of the eyes is bigger than avoiding immodest women. It covers every input you allow in: the music you listen to, the podcasts and shows you consume, the people you spend time with, the food you eat, the alcohol you drink. All of it forms you into someone. The question is who.Then there is the snooze button. You set an alarm the night before, you gave your word, and the moment it goes off you break it for the comfort of the flesh. That says something about your dignity as a man, and it is being built into your identity every single morning.We also talk about the frog in the boiling water, the seed choked by thorns in the parable of the sower, and why the courage to live a holy life never waits for zero risk. You are only courageous if something is at stake.In this video I cover: The neurological grip of vice and why one act of willpower doesn't break it How desensitization to sin builds up over years What custody of the eyes really means Why the snooze button is a question of dignity and identity How the world, the flesh, and the devil wear you down bit by bit Why every moment of your day belongs to ChristFollow me on Rumble in case I get banned: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Mentorship: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: Links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters 0:00 Why Vice Is Deeper Than One Action 1:22 Peterson on Micro Retreats 2:10 Guard Every Input 3:55 Snooze Button and Dignity 5:23 Courage Requires Risk 7:37 Small Decisions and the World 9:05 Every Moment Belongs to Christ 10:00 One on One Mentorship
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  Travel Update 1 19.09.2026 9min

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  Healthmaxxing for the Holy Spirit - 9 Rules 09.09.2026 36min

  I've spent years studying health maxing, vitalism, thumos, and virility through a Christian lens. This started back when I was eighteen, diving into a corner of the internet obsessed with physical excellence as a form of arete. Most guys treat the body and the soul like two separate projects. They're not. Every spiritual sin starts in the flesh, and if you're neglecting your biology, you're neglecting your zealousness for God's kingdom whether you realize it or not.In this video I break down the daily and weekly rules I actually live by. Some of it will surprise you. Some of it will make you rethink your morning routine, your diet, your sleep, and what you're doing to your nervous system every single day without knowing it.In this video I cover: The governing principle behind physical mastery and virtue The exact order of operations for your morning (and why breaking it wrecks your whole day) The truth about sunlight, circadian rhythm, and why most men are hormonally sabotaging themselves Grounding, EMF, and why your bedroom might be working against you Cold showers and why heat is quietly destroying your recovery The nutrition rules I follow, including what to never put in your body Nose breathing, fasting, and training principles that build both muscle and the will What to cut completely: alcohol, vaping, and the substances dulling your disciplineFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED:https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living.→ https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person.→ https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly.→ https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here.→ https://forgevirtue.com/links0:00 Health Maxing And Christian Virility2:40 The Body As A Temple6:06 The Daily Rule Begins With Prayer7:45 Sunlight And Circadian Rhythm12:13 Grounding And Cold Showers16:27 Nutrition Seed Oils And Protein18:53 Nose Breathing And Sleep Environment25:06 Training Without Burnout26:55 Fasting And Weekly Rhythm29:11 What To Avoid Alcohol And Nicotine31:26 Recap And Mental Health Benefits34:06 Your Body As A Sacrament35:17 Fit For The Kingdom Resources
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  It's Not That You're Lazy 04.09.2026 20min

  Distraction and destruction come from the same root word. That's not a coincidence, and once you see it you can't unsee it.I open this one with something I do with the men I coach directly, a habit that looks meaningless from the outside but is doing more work than anything else in their lives. Then I get into why the device in your hand is not a neutral tool, why prayer feels impossible for you right now, and the actual math on what this is costing you over a decade.Most guys think they know how bad their screen time is. They don't. And the men who do wake up to it are the ones who actually start living with intention instead of getting dragged along by an algorithm built to keep them exactly where they are.If you've ever wondered why silence feels unbearable, why you can't sit still with your own thoughts anymore, or why your prayer life has gone dry, this is the video that explains it and gives you the way out.In this video I cover:why distraction is a spiritual problem before it's a productivity problemthe science behind why your brain can't just "put the phone down"the real reason you struggle to praythe compounding cost of your screen time over years, not daysa practical rule of life to regain autonomywhy brotherhood and the Sabbath are non-negotiable in the fightFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED:https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living.→ https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person.→ https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly.→ https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here.→ https://forgevirtue.com/linksTimestamps0:00 Distraction Leads To Destruction0:53 Why Daily Accountability Matters3:42 Proverbs On Vision And Purpose4:24 The Algorithm Is Not Neutral7:12 Why You Can't Pray Anymore9:52 Mary And Martha Distraction11:05 The Compounding Cost15:06 Reclaiming Your Autonomy17:01 Brotherhood And Accountability17:28 Keep The Sabbath Holy18:18 Live With Intention
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  Stop Trying to "Participate" At Mass | What Pope Leo XIV and Tradition Has to Say 29.08.2026 1t 11min

  Pope Leo XIV told the world on 26 August 2026 that the faithful must not be "strangers and silent spectators." Almost everyone will hear that as a call to do more at Mass. It is not. In this live stream we go back to the actual documents, in Latin where it matters, and show what the Church has meant by active participation from Pius X in 1903 to the present day.For sixty years "active participation" has been read as activity. More lay roles. More movement. More words. More jobs in the sanctuary. And the more activity we added, the fewer people came. We put the numbers on screen and let them speak: Mass attendance in the United States falling from 75 percent in 1955 to roughly 20 percent today, Australia dropping from 11.8 percent to 8.2 percent in five years, New Zealand losing Catholic identification while the population grew. If activity were participation, the busiest liturgy in history should not have the emptiest pews.Then the question that flips the burden of proof. If the old Mass really was a silent movie of a man's back, why did people cross oceans, walk miles and fill churches every Sunday for 1,500 years? Were the greatest saints in the history of the Church simply sitting there confused?What we cover live:Pope Leo XIV's full August catechesis series on Sacrosanctum Concilium and why he calls the reform continuity, not ruptureThe seven false versions of "active participation," named and dismantled on airWhich parish practices are legitimate options and which the Church herself condemned in Redemptionis SacramentumTra le Sollecitudini 1903 and the Latin text that does not contain the word "active"Pius XII in Mediator Dei: you truly offer with the priest, but you are not a concelebrantSacrosanctum Concilium read line by line, including Latin, Gregorian chant and reverent silenceJohn Paul II in 1998: silence and stillness are demanded by active participation, not opposed to itRatzinger on the oratio: "external actions are quite secondary"Our Lady at the foot of the Cross, the perfect icon of participation with no words, no function and no movementA practical guide for men: how to actually pray the Mass, part by part, at the Novus Ordo or the Traditional Latin MassBring your questions. Live chat is open throughout.FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/links
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  You Already Know What to Do. So Why Don't You Do It? 27.08.2026 19min

  Podcast in reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdkwqkE20MYou already know what to do. You have known for years. So why does your life look exactly the same as it did twelve months ago?This is a short one, but it deals with the reason most men never change.I almost never finished the podcast that prompted this video. I turned it off halfway through, bored, convinced I was hearing the same recycled advice for the hundredth time. Something made me click back on it a few weeks later. The second half contained three ideas that explain why so much formation content lands on men who agree with all of it and change nothing.The first has to do with why the most important truths in your life sound boring. There is a specific reason certain advice makes you roll your eyes, and that reaction is telling you something about yourself that you are not going to enjoy hearing.The second explains why the man who wants an extraordinary life cannot keep behaving like the men around him. Most people are not aiming where you claim to be aiming. Their behaviour is calibrated to their goals, not yours. If you keep matching it, you already know how this ends.The third is the one that would have saved me years if I had understood it at eighteen. There is a single measure that determines whose criticism you should take seriously and whose you should discard entirely. Apply it honestly and most of what you are afraid of stops mattering by the end of the week.Underneath all three sits the difference between the soul that shrinks to fit other people's expectations and the soul that stretches towards great things in spite of fear. The Church has names for both. Most men are living in the first one without ever having chosen it.St James says faith without works is dead. You can hold the closest approximation to divine truth available on this earth and still be a grave sinner. Knowing is not the same as doing, and the space between the two is where most men spend their entire lives.You do not need to be taught. You need to be reminded.In this video I cover:why the truths that matter most sound like cliches, and what that says about youthe gap between knowing something and executing itwhy extraordinary results demand non-ordinary behaviourhow to weigh a man's opinion by his proximity to your goalthe disordered fear of judgment that deflects a man from the goodpusillanimity, magnanimity, and stretching the soul towards ChristI also share an update on the Fit for the Kingdom School, which launched last week. The masculinity course is up, community access is free, and we have just begun a ten week theology of the body course with Father Ben Duza on Tuesday nights at 8pm New Zealand time. https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 The Hormozi Podcast That Struck Me1:10 Why Deep Truths Sound Like Cliches2:20 The Gap Is Execution Not Info4:05 You Need Reminding Not
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  Overcoming lust, father/son relationships, authentic femininity, and more | AMA 002 22.08.2026 1t 3min

  Chapters1:19 How can fathers repair relationships with sons13:16 Young man asking a woman for inappropriate photos16:20 Where can I get FFTK Merch16:52 How to Structure Morning Prayer21:26 Would you take TRT when you get older25:14 Helping teenage boys become real men36:33 New haircut36:57 Women being strong without becoming girl bosses45:33 How do you overcome lustLive Q&A on faith, fitness, relationships, and life advice, open to everyone. Join Tomas from Fit for the Kingdom as we work through your questions on prayer, training, dating and marriage, discipline, and living a serious life in the middle of a world that makes it difficult.We will be revisiting some of the best questions from previous Q&As and taking new ones live in the chat. I will have a co host with me to help field questions and keep the conversation moving, so this will be less of a monologue and more of a real discussion.When:Saturday 10:30am NZSTSaturday 8:30am AESTSet a reminder above so you do not miss it.Ask your question:Drop it in the live chat, send me a DM on Instagram, or reply to the story.Cannot make it live? The full replay stays up on the channel, so subscribe and hit the bell to catch it.What we cover on this channel:Fit for the Kingdom is a Catholic formation apostolate running across New Zealand and Australia. We help men and women build the physical strength, spiritual discipline, and real community needed to live for Christ without compromise. Expect training, prayer, Catholic teaching, and honest conversation about relationships, vocation, and what it actually takes.Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio.FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/links
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  Why Your Future Wife Will Resent You 21.08.2026 31min

  A mother named Lindsay Clancy in Massachusetts killed her three children. Then women went on TikTok to say they understood her. That is where we are. And most people want to talk about it as an isolated tragedy instead of what it actually reveals about the state of marriage and the family right now.This one was requested by a listener and I will warn you upfront that parts of it are heavy. I am not showing footage. I am walking you through what I have been seeing and why I think it is downstream of something much older and much deeper than a news cycle. Our Lady of Fatima said the final battle would be fought over marriage and the family. I do not think that was poetic language. I think we are living in the middle of it.There is an ancient fault line between man and woman that runs all the way back to Genesis. Male strength turns into domination or into silence. Female receptivity turns into control or into resentment. When both happen at once inside a home, the children are the ones standing in the crossfire.Underneath all of it sits one thing. A total loss of intentionality. Marriage treated as a contract you can dissolve for no reason. Children treated as accidents or lifestyle choices. Life itself treated as optional and inconvenient. And once a culture accepts that, everything downstream of it collapses, including things people think are minor.I also spend time on the other picture. What marriage actually is when it is understood as a sacrament and not an arrangement. What you are really saying yes to when you stand at that altar. Why the sufferings inside a marriage are the raw material of your holiness. And why your job as a husband and father is to get every soul in that house to heaven.Let me know in the comments if you made it to the end.FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/links0:00 Heavy Topic Warning0:59 Fatima and the Final Battle1:48 The Lindsay Clancy Case4:13 The Fault Line From Genesis5:44 Resentment and Male Silence7:22 Children in the Crossfire9:17 Marriage Treated as an Accident12:30 What Marriage Actually Is16:43 Abortion Up to 40 Weeks19:41 Why Small Sexual Sins Matter21:43 Rachel Wilson on Occult Feminism23:49 The Path Forward for Men26:07 Books and Resources28:02 The Legion and the School
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  Stop Waiting Until You Feel Like Praying 19.08.2026 32min

  I don't get anything out of prayer.I've heard that from a lot of men. I've said it myself. And the moment you say it out loud, you've already told on yourself, because that sentence assumes prayer is something you're supposed to be extracting a return from.In this video I break down what prayer actually is, starting with the part nobody wants to hear. You owe it. Not because it feels good. Not because it makes you calmer or more focused or more productive. You owe your father honour because he gave you existence in a limited way. God gave it to you absolutely. Aquinas has a name for the virtue that governs this, and once you see it, the days when prayer feels like nothing stop being a reason to quit.But that's only half of it, and the half that gets men praying like they're paying a bill. What you owe isn't tribute to a distant force. It's communion with a Person who has a name, a face, and wounds. Christianity was never a religion of the book. Christ didn't hand out a text and disappear. He founded a Body and gave Himself in the Sacraments, and the man who tries to do this privately ends up with a religion of one, with himself sitting at the centre of it.Then I walk through the five forms of prayer from the Catechism. Most men only ever pray one of them, and it's the smallest one. I'd ask you to be honest with yourself as I go through the list, because the order matters more than you think, and the last one tells you whether the other four have actually changed you.FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Why Prayer Feels Unclear2:47 Three Ideas About Prayer4:03 Prayer Is an Act of Justice8:45 When You Do Not Desire Prayer12:16 Dryness and Desolation15:10 God Is a Person Not a Force18:43 Walk the Sacramental Life20:49 Song of Songs and Intimacy21:26 Five Forms of Prayer23:57 Praise and a Wedding Story26:32 Prayer Changes Your Life29:38 The School Community31:28 One on One Mentorship
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  "There's no good men" dating advice, how to quit smoking, work/life balance, and more | AMA 001 15.08.2026 59min

  Live Q&A on faith, fitness, relationships, and life advice, open to everyone. Join Tomas from Fit for the Kingdom as we work through your questions on prayer, training, dating and marriage, discipline, and living a serious life in the middle of a world that makes it difficult.Ask your question:Drop it in the live chat, send me a DM on Instagram, or reply to the story. If you would rather stay anonymous, submit it here: https://forms.gle/wMqmfZxRmo1RbMa28Chapters0:00 Setup And Pulling The Questions2:37 Is Work Just Slavery19:51 Advice For Women When Men Fold29:04 Is Too Much Training Wasteful33:55 Balancing Hard Work And Family36:56 Quitting Smoking And Addiction39:52 Signs Of Being Lukewarm45:24 Building The Virtue Of Studiousness58:05 Closing ThoughtsA man wrote in and said labour is slavery, meaning from work is sinful, and you should work as little as you can and enjoy the rest. That comment kicked off this live Q&A, and it turned into an hour on the dignity of work, the virtue of studiousness, addiction, lukewarmness, and what to do when the men around you are folding.Tomas is joined by Lachy, a theology student and co-worker on the farm, to answer questions submitted through Instagram and YouTube. No abstract theory for its own sake. Every answer comes back to what you actually do on Monday morning.In this episode we cover why work was part of Adam's vocation before the fall and not only part of the curse, how to find objective meaning in a job you do not enjoy, why virtue cannot be switched on and off between the gym and the home, how much training is too much, how to structure a day around prayer instead of fitting prayer around the leftovers, and why most people burn out from resting badly rather than working hard.If you are stuck in a job you hate, dragging yourself through your third attempt at quitting something, or wondering whether you have squandered the faith you were handed, this one is for you.FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesThe Legion: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://fftkingdom.com/the-legionFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/links
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  Why You Hate Your Job (It's Not the Job) 13.08.2026 36min

  Half your life is spent working. Most men have quietly accepted that half of it means nothing.I wrote an essay earlier this year on St. John Paul II's Laborem Exercens, and it's essential for revivifying and re-enchanting our view of life. We have taken something that Adam was doing before the fall, something woven into the image of God himself, and reduced it to a paycheck and a clock. John Paul II has a name for that reduction. Economism. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.This is the video where I break down why work is not primarily economic, why capitalism and communism both fail the worker for the same underlying reason, and what it actually means to say that man is not for work, but work is for man. I get into the subjective dimension of labour, the theological grounding of stewardship in Genesis, the universal destination of goods, and Josef Pieper's warning about the total work society that leaves no room for leisure, contemplation or anything that makes us human.There is a point in here about identity that I think most men need to sit with. If you are not taking your identity from Christ, you are taking it from somewhere. Money, fame, status, the next target. You cannot take it from nothing. And the rat race will happily give you one.This is a longer one, and it is not for everyone. But if you show up to work tomorrow morning with a different lens than you had today, it did its job.Dean Mischewski's talk from St. Michael's Troops on living your faith in the workplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GArkpgGMQRsFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Channel Update And Semester Wrap0:55 Introducing Laborem Exercens On Work3:12 Adam Worked Before The Fall4:47 What Is Economism6:28 Three Points On The Dignity Of Work9:00 Realizing Yourself Through Work10:15 Worker As Subject Not Object12:39 Focusing On People Not Product14:09 Economism And The Industrial Revolution15:11 How Capitalism And Socialism Both Fail17:41 Pieper And The Total Work Society18:35 The Trap Of Self Worth In Success21:46 Viktor Frankl And Finding Meaning23:37 Work As Participation In Creation26:05 Stewardship And Getting Better At Work27:41 Work And The Common Good32:01 Avoiding The Rat Race32:56 Support The Mission And Community
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  You're Not Actually That Bothered by Your Sin 10.08.2026 8min

  Aquinas would tell you the will moves toward whatever it actually loves, and your loves are built by repetition, not by information. You can read the right books, listen to the right men, agree with every word, and still find your body walking toward the same sin at 10pm. The intellect can hold a truth for years while the appetite goes on running the house.Which is why commitment collapses when the reason behind it terminates in you. Discipline built on a self image will hold for six weeks and then quietly negotiate itself away, because there is nobody standing on the other end of the promise to break faith with. Reasons that survive have names attached to them. A wife. A son. The men who follow you. God, who gave you the body and the hours and expects a return.Look at the man in Luke 9:62 again. His hands are still on the plough. He is still technically working. The furrow goes crooked because his eyes went back to the house, and that is how most men lose ground. Not by quitting, but by continuing while looking backward at the old life with something like affection still in them.So write the list before you need it. BE FIRM with your identity. Specific, written down, so that when the alarm goes at 4am the decision has already been made by a clearer version of you.FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/links
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  The Devil Doesn't Need You to Sin Badly 02.08.2026 28min

  There is a man who believes in God and is losing anyway. He is not a bad man. He would tell you Christ is Lord and he would mean it. He goes to Mass. He would defend the faith if someone attacked it at a dinner table. And he is losing, steadily, in a way he has no vocabulary for, because nothing in his week looks like a defeat.That is the whole trick. The enemy does not need you to renounce Christ. He needs you tired, distracted, and slightly compromised, every day, for forty years. He is patient in a way you are not.You have been formed by something. That is not a question. You did not arrive at your opinions, your appetites, and your tolerance for what you watch by reasoning your way there. It happened by osmosis, slowly, from a society that has been catechising you since you were a child. Plato saw this 2,400 years ago and wanted to ban certain music from the Republic. Ask yourself what he would have made of your feed.Here is what most men will not accept. There is no morally neutral action. You are either being pulled toward God or away from Him, in every hour, including the hours you consider yours. Christ said it plainly and men have been softening it ever since. I want to show you what losing actually looks like from the inside, because it does not look like losing. It looks like a decent life with a few loose ends. I go through the loose ends. Some of them are yours.I speak directly to the men caught in lust, and I tell you something you will not hear from most Catholics. You are waiting for a rescue that is not coming, because you have misdiagnosed what you are dealing with. The despair you feel about it is doing more damage than the sin. I explain why, and what you actually do instead.In this video I cover:what spiritual warfare actually is, and why ignorance of it is the enemy's first victorythe man who believes in Christ but never lets it touch his morning, his phone, or his appetiteshow the world forms you by osmosis until your beliefs quietly follow the culturethe small unguarded moments the devil uses instead of grave sinemotional unchastity and why you cannot guard your interior lifewhy lust and corn do not require a miracle to overcome, and what the despair cycle is really costing youthe rule of life, and the one test for every decision you makewhat Christ revealed to St. Faustina about silence and humilitythe 400 year old manual that already answers everything you think is unanswerablewhy the body and the soul cannot be separated, and what that demands of youFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Why Studying Theology Matters1:45 The Reality of Spiritual Warfare3:19 How the World Tempts Us6:54 Belief Without Action9:16 Filling Your Mind With Junk11:22 You Have No Rule of Life12:29 Train for Martyrdom13:18 Lust and the Cycle of Despair16:18 How the Devil Distracts Me19:31 Start With a Rule of Life21:53 Books for the Spiritual Life23:54 Body and Soul Are One25:44 Are You Ready for Judgment
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  You Gave God 95%. The 5% Is Why You're Stuck 25.07.2026 14min

  Most men are in the same place they were two years ago and cannot work out why. They pray. They train. They get to confession. They read the right books. They go to Mass. Nothing moves. Fr. Chad Ripperger said something in his recent interview with Shawn Ryan that put language to a problem I see in almost every man I speak to. It comes down to the nature of sacrifice. Where it comes from, what it actually requires, and why so few men ever complete it.Sacrifice sits under the virtue of justice. Justice is giving to each what they are due, and underneath it sits the virtue of religion, which is giving God what is owed to him. Worship. He is our creator. Your life, your intellect, your faith, every single thing you have is pure unmerited gift. There is nothing in your life that does not already belong to him. So when men tell me they are already sacrificing, I ask what they are actually handing over. Nine times out of ten it is the offcuts. The lamb with the broken leg. Cain kept the best for himself and gave God the leftovers. Abel gave the best he had and retained nothing.And there is a reason the thing you refuse to give up is the exact thing keeping you chained to the flesh, stuck in the same base pleasures, unable to reach a single one of the greater goods you claim you want. Chastity requires it. Temperance requires it. Marriage and children require it. A body worth calling a temple of the Holy Spirit requires it. The bridge between fallen man and divine life is Christ, and the shape of that bridge is sacrifice.In this video I cover:the three components of sacrifice: the offertory, the slaying of the victim, and the consummationwhy the victim has to be completely consumed and what happens when you hold back five percentdetachment, concupiscence, and why enjoying the material world is not the same as being bound to ithow the refusal to sacrifice keeps men trapped in lust, hedonism, and delayed commitmentLucifer's original charism and how the enemy uses it against you nowFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Why Most Men Stall in Virtue0:52 Sacrifice Comes From Justice2:12 The Offertory and Setting Apart4:24 Slaying the Victim5:22 Consummation and the 5% You Keep6:58 Sacrifice Is the Bridge to God7:32 Sex Marriage and Real Fulfilment8:53 Physical Health Requires Sacrifice9:24 Lucifer's Charism Was Sacrifice11:40 What Have You Not Given God12:13 Why the Mass Is Necessary12:57 The Legion Coaching and Troops
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  Why You've Been Stuck Spiritually for Years 19.07.2026 19min

  Modern Christianity has a massive blind spot, and most guys walking around calling themselves Christian have no idea it exists. Believing in Jesus and feeling sorry when you sin has become the whole religion for a lot of people. That's not Christianity. That's a watered down version of it, and it's why so many men stay stuck in the same cycles year after year, never actually growing.Here are three non-negotiables for a real spiritual life. Not suggestions. Not nice to haves. Things the saints understood that we've largely forgotten. I break down exactly where modern Christianity gets it wrong, why reducing faith to an intellectual checklist leaves you spiritually weak, and what it actually looks like to live the interior life the way the church has always intended.This is what I've lived out myself and what I walk men through one on one. Please watch my other videos for more help on how to practically do this, such as this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMt6_kPw9vgIn this video I cover:why the spiritual life has to be your number one prioritythe blind spot in modern Christianity that turns faith into a checklist instead of a lifewhy faith without works is deadthe church already gave us 2,000 years of spiritual traditionthe power of the sacraments, confession, fasting, and the rosarywhy reading the lives of the saints will completely reprogram how you see the worldstop negotiating with sin and actually fight it to the point of shedding bloodFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Welcome and Recap0:16 Sydney Blasphemy Incident1:49 How to Grow Spiritually3:00 Make It Your Priority4:19 Faith Without Works Is Dead6:34 Spiritual Life Is Not Optional7:38 Real Prayer Versus Habit9:48 Recover Church Traditions10:19 Eucharist Source and Summit11:34 Why the Rosary Works12:41 Study the Traditions Yourself13:36 Imitate the Lives of Saints16:05 Secular Thinking Versus Faith17:49 Holiness Is a Pursuit19:06 Work With Me and The Legion
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  Divine Playhouse SHUT DOWN, MASSIVE Prayer Vigil Tomorrow | COUNTER PROTEST organised! 19.07.2026 44min

  DIVINE PLAYHOUSE SHUT DOWN — MASSIVE PRAYER VIGIL TOMORROWDivine Playhouse (formerly Unholy Playhouse), the Sydney nightclub that mocked the Holy Eucharist, the Mass, and sacred Catholic imagery inside a 158 year old deconsecrated church on Kent Street, has been forced to CLOSE after a week of Christian prayer and public pressure.The landlord issued a breach notice over "offensive trade." Meta removed the Divine Playhouse Instagram account. The story went viral across Australian and international media.But this isn't over. Heaps Gay and organiser Kat Dopper are now fundraising to fight back and continue the venue's programming, and are organising a counter protest for tomorrow.FRIDAY 17 JULY, 5:30PM: Liam Aquilina leads a second NSW Police approved prayer vigil at 420 Kent Street, Sydney CBD. We are gathering to pray, not to shut down speech, not to intimidate anyone, but to keep this act of blasphemy in public view, and to pray for the conversion of everyone still involved. Please arrive early, remain peaceful, and DO NOT ENGAGE provocation.THE CONTEXTA church deconsecrated in the 1930s and later used as the Genesian Theatre was converted this month into a nightclub featuring performances mocking the Holy Eucharist (depicted as McDonald's fries fed by pigs), the Liturgy of the Hours, and Catholic sisters, funded in part by a $100,000 grant from the NSW Government's Create NSW under the Minns Government. Premier Chris Minns has said officials are reviewing the grant. Last Wednesday, 100 to 200 Christians held the first prayer vigil outside the venue. One week later, it closed.We do not answer mockery with hatred. We answer it with prayer and truth. Jesus is Lord.🔗 FOLLOW & STAY [email protected] | TikTok: @liam.aquilina1@[email protected] / @fftkingdomfftkingdom.com@freedomfound_ministriesChapters0:00 Live Stream Opens1:41 Opening Prayer And Deliverance3:23 Divine Playhouse Blasphemous Images8:38 Recap And Venue Closure Win11:02 Counterprotest And Police13:25 Personal Harassment Update16:37 Triple J Hack Interview24:33 Etsy Witches Warning26:02 Most Gay People Disagree28:13 Why We Keep Protesting32:07 Community And Finding A Parish35:05 Holding The Line Tomorrow37:10 Star Observer Article38:39 Protest Logistics Confirmed40:05 What To Expect Tomorrow43:04 Final Prayer Petition44:38 Closing Prayer
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  Demonic Nightclub MOCKS Jesus in Sydney – Liam Aquilina LEADS PRAYER VIGIL Against the Blasphemy 19.07.2026 31min

  LIVE: Standing Against the Demonic Blasphemy in Sydney - Prayer Protest at Unholy Playhouse with Liam Aquilina & Tomas Mones-CazonJoin us live as Liam Aquilina, who led the powerful Catholic prayer protest with hundreds gathered outside Unholy Playhouse on Wednesday night, shares eyewitness accounts and spiritual insights.Unholy Playhouse at 420 Kent Street, Sydney CBD, turned a 150-year-old former church (St Johns Church / Genesian Theatre, built 1868) into a venue for cabaret, live exorcisms, Holy Flesh performances, and unholy parties — backed by NSW Government funding through Create NSW. They used shockingly blasphemous images of Our Lord, mocked the Eucharist, and blatantly made fun of everything Christian.This is open mockery of Christianity. Christians must stand up now against cultural desecration and government-enabled blasphemy. Western democracy fails when it protects some faiths but funds attacks on the one that built the West.Pray with us, get equipped, and take action. The time for silent faith is over.🔗 Liam Aquilina Links:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liam.aquilina/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@liam.aquilina1🔗 Tomas Mones-Cazon & Fit For The Kingdom Links:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tomas.mones7Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomas.monesX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomas_monesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomas.mones.cazon/FFTK Main Website: https://fftkingdom.comFFTK Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fftkingdom/Chapters0:00 Liam Aquilina Joins The Show1:03 The Deconsecrated Church Venue2:01 How The Vigil Came Together2:49 Opening Prayer4:36 How Liam First Heard About It6:07 Two Hundred People Showed Up8:11 Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence9:20 Why They Showed Up Opening Night12:04 Blinded By The God Of This World13:35 Reading Viewer Comments16:03 Walking Through That Night18:17 If They Get Kicked Out20:52 Is Prayer Enough23:14 Called Like Moses And David26:11 Going Viral And Friday Plans28:49 Their Favorite Bible Verses30:52 Closing With The Glory Be
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  Declaring War on Fat Christian Men 07.07.2026 21min

  Fat Christians are losing the war before it even starts.I go after one of the most underaddressed problems in the church today, low energy Christianity. Gluttony gets treated like a minor issue, but it strips men of the vigor they need to lead, to fight, and to actually spread the gospel. A priest without energy loses his authority. A father without energy loses his role as protector. And a man without thumos, without fire in the chest, becomes apathetic to the injustice happening right in front of him.I break down how this problem hits you on every level at once. Physically, spiritually, and mentally, it all works as one system. You cannot be sharp in prayer while your body is running on inflammation and sludge. You cannot stand against evil while you are gooning in your room. The devil does not need to do much work on a man who has already taken himself off the front line.In this video I cover:why gluttony is a bigger threat than most Christians realizehow a weak body destroys spiritual and mental claritythe link between sloth, apathy, and sexual sinwhy processed food and dopamine culture kill your thumosthe trench warfare mindset that builds real fortitudewhy balance is a luxury you have not earned yetFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Low Energy Christianity Problem2:18 The Out Of Shape Priest4:06 Body Soul And Temple7:00 Sloth And Doom Scrolling9:09 Slop Destroys Your Brain10:36 Fasting Brings Clarity11:03 Thumos And Righteous Anger12:26 Types Of Gluttony13:01 Removed From The Front Line14:01 Fat Truthing And Fortitude16:14 Goggins Jocko And The Trenches17:46 Practical Tips For Energy18:18 Balance Comes After The Goal20:13 Join The Legion Community
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  Why Discipline Feels Like War (And When It Stops) 02.07.2026 39min

  A city without walls gets sacked. That's what your soul looks like without this one virtue, and most men have no idea they're living exactly like that.Self-possession sounds simple until you actually try to define it. Most guys think it just means white knuckling through temptation, gritting your teeth and surviving the day. But there's a massive difference between externally holding the line and actually being free on the inside, and that gap is where most men get stuck for years without realizing it.I break down Aristotle's distinction between continence and virtue, why fasting and cold showers only get you halfway there, and the exact daily practices that move you from fighting yourself every single day to actually winning the war internally.In this video I cover:the Proverbs 25:28 analogy of a city without walls and what it means for your soulthe difference between external and internal temperancewhy going to the gym six days a week doesn't make you disciplinedAristotle's continent man versus the virtuous manthe four ways to build external self-possessionhow prayer, confession, and accountability build internal self-possessionwhy white knuckling your way through Lent or a no fap streak isn't the same as being freeFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 What Is Self Possession0:24 Intellect Will And Senses3:29 Modern Men Possessed By Vice6:14 External Vs Internal Temperance9:22 Disciplined Body Disordered Life10:52 Continence Versus True Virtue13:12 Filling The Gap With God14:54 Internal Self Possession Defined16:32 Boethius And Losing Yourself18:43 How To Build The Virtue19:19 Fasting To Build Self Control21:05 Setting Firm Boundaries23:36 Structuring Your Environment26:42 Prayer Fills The Internal Gap29:09 Sitting In The Friction30:32 Examination Confession Accountability34:16 Full Commitment To Virtue38:20 Join The Legion Community39:43 Final Thoughts And Blessing
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  You Don't Know What Kind of Man to Become 28.06.2026 16min

  The hero is dead. That's the actual crisis behind every "lost" young man you know. We built a whole society on maximizing freedom and individual choice, and in doing it we ripped out the one thing that gave men direction. Not feminism. Not video games. Not porn. Those are symptoms. The real collapse is the loss of the standard.I dig into why the hero archetype, Batman, Aragorn, Luke Skywalker, Odysseus, isn't childish nostalgia but the actual mechanism your conscience uses to judge your own actions. An ideal works because it's a judge. When you don't have one, you don't just feel aimless, you lose the ability to measure yourself at all. This came out of a talk I gave to a group of boys aged 8 to 14, and it forced me to get specific about what the standard actually demands of a man. Strength. Wisdom. Temperance. What they're for, and why losing them is what's actually neutering an entire generation of men into paycheck-and-Netflix mode.Christ is the ultimate archetype. But you need closer reference points too, and I explain why.In this video I cover:why the collapse of masculinity isn't really about feminism, porn, or video gamesthe hero as an embodied standard and why you need one to judge yourself againstwhat strength, wisdom, and temperance actually look like lived out as a manwhy losing geographical roots, career pathways, and stable communities accelerated this collapsehow to connect your specific life to a universal standardwhere to actually start this week if you're convicted but lostFOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesSkool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdomFFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/linksChapters0:00 Collapse Of Masculinity1:09 Loss Of The Standard3:03 Peterson On Identity4:08 Heroes Of Fiction Matter6:28 The Hero As Ideal8:11 Virtues Of True Manhood9:19 Temperance And Desire10:05 Standards For Career Finance12:13 Fall Of The Hero14:01 Recover The Hero15:55 Join The Legion