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/tomasmonesAre you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to The 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

FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesThere 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 victory-the man who believes in Christ but never lets it touch his morning, his phone, or his appetites-how the world forms you by osmosis until your beliefs quietly follow the culture-the small unguarded moments the devil uses instead of grave sin-emotional unchastity and why you cannot guard your interior life-why lust and corn do not require a miracle to overcome, and what the despair cycle is really costing you-the rule of life, and the one test for every decision you make-what Christ revealed to St. Faustina about silence and humility-the 400 year old manual that already answers everything you think is unanswerable-why the body and the soul cannot be separated, and what that demands of youAre you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to The 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/links0:00 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

FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesMost 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 consummation-why the victim has to be completely consumed and what happens when you hold back five percent-detachment, concupiscence, and why enjoying the material world is not the same as being bound to it-how the refusal to sacrifice keeps men trapped in lust, hedonism, and delayed commitment-Lucifer's original charism and how the enemy uses it against you nowAre you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to The 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/links0:00 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

FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesModern 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 pracitcally do this, such as this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMt6_kPw9vg&list=PLNiMDAMs3mP4hu5KJE9rnUm7h7kLLOVPk&index=7&t=160sIn this video I cover:-why the spiritual life has to be your number one priority-the blind spot in modern Christianity that turns faith into a checklist instead of a life-why faith without works is dead-the church already gave us 2,000 years of spiritual tradition-the power of the sacraments, confession, fasting, and the rosary-why reading the lives of the saints will completely reprogram how you see the world-stop negotiating with sin and actually fight it to the point of shedding bloodAre you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to hold?The Legion is a brotherhood of Christian men built around real accountability, weekly coaching, and a network of men who are actually doing the work. If you're done doing this alone, the door is open.The 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://linktr.ee/tomas.mones 0:00 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

🚨 DIVINE PLAYHOUSE SHUT DOWN — MASSIVE PRAYER VIGIL TOMORROW 🚨Divine 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] / @fftkingdom fftkingdom.com@freedomfound_ministries#DivinePlayhouse #MockingJesus #ChristIsLord #DefendTheFaith #PrayerVigil #Sydney #LiamAquilina #KentStreet #CreateNSW0:00 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

🚨 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 baslphemous 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/#UnholyPlayhouse #Sydney #LiamAquilina #TomasMonesCazon #Catholic #StandUpChristians #DefendTheFaith #SpiritualWarfare #ChristianAustralia0:00 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

FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesFat 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 realize-how a weak body destroys spiritual and mental clarity-the link between sloth, apathy, and sexual sin-why processed food and dopamine culture kill your thumos-the trench warfare mindset that builds real fortitude-why balance is a luxury you have not earned yetThe 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://linktr.ee/tomas.mones0:00 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

FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesA 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 soul-the difference between external and internal temperance-why going to the gym six days a week doesn't make you disciplined-Aristotle's continent man versus the virtuous man-the four ways to build external self-possession-how prayer, confession, and accountability build internal self-possession-why white knuckling your way through Lent or a no fap streak isn't the same as being freeThe 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://linktr.ee/tomas.mones0:00 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

FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE IN CASE I GET BANNED: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesThe 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 denuting 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 games-the hero as an embodied standard and why you need one to judge itself against-what strength, wisdom, and temperance actually look like lived out as a man-why losing geographical roots, career pathways, and stable communities accelerated this collapse-how to connect your specific life to a universal standard-where to actually start this week if you're convicted but lostThe 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://linktr.ee/tomas.mones0:00 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

Virtue is hard enough on its own. Cold showers, prayer, training, diet, all of it comes with friction. But there's a second kind of friction nobody talks about. It's not physical. It's psychological. It's the look you get when you say no to the weekend drink. It's the "bro just take it easy" when you skip the slop and hit the gym instead.Most men don't fail because they lack conviction intellectually. They fail because the first bit of social pressure cracks them. One skipped workout becomes three. One missed prayer becomes a habit of missing. You start crying wolf to yourself, and eventually you stop believing your own promises.Aristotle said virtue requires habituation in a community that recognizes and rewards it. We are not living in that kind of society anymore. So the higher you climb, the more alone you'll feel doing it. That's not a reason to stop.In this video I cover:-the difference between physical friction and psychological friction-why the boy who cried wolf is the perfect analogy for broken discipline-Aristotle's view on virtue, habituation, and community-why weekends and modern rest culture are a societal baseline worth questioning-how to tell the difference between well-intentioned correction and noise-why fortitude is the virtue that gets you throughThe 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://linktr.ee/tomas.mones0:00 Personal Update and Injury Recovery1:02 Social Environment as Obstacle to Virtue2:30 Peer Pressure Cuts Your Intention4:33 Crying Wolf to Yourself5:35 Saying No to the Status Quo7:14 Friction Should Not Be Minimized8:08 Climbing Higher Increases Friction9:37 Discerning Valid Criticism12:18 Aristotle on Habituation13:42 Virtue of Fortitude