The Forge with Tomas Mones-Cazon

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/ You know you were made for more. But you keep your head down, keep the peace, and keep waiting until you feel ready. You call it humility. You call it prudence. You call it living a balanced life. Aquinas has a different name for it. He calls it th...

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/ 30 Days of Chastity Challenge: Join a brotherhood of 3 to 9 men this November, check in daily, and get a new gem from scripture, the Church Fathers, and theology of the body every morning. Sign up here. → https://fftkingdom.com/ When we launched th...

Apply to work with me 1:1: https://forgevirtue.com/ Most men work their 40 hours, clock off, and give the rest of the week to Netflix, the drink, and the Saturday sleep-in. Then they wonder why nothing in their life is moving. I did the maths on what a man actually gives away when he treats the weekend as his reward. The number is bigger than most guys want to admit. It's more than enough time to...

<p>You're Good But Not Virtuous (Here's Why That Matters): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNqzd0dNvc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNqzd0dNvc</a></p> <p>Jesus saved His harshest words for the most religious men in Israel. They prayed, fasted, tithed and kept every rule, and He called them whitewashed tombs.</p> <p>Most seri...

Healthmaxxing for Christ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HxyOXe603w 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/ Gym culture has drifted a long way from where it started. The golden era of bodybuilding had a purity to it. Arnold, Mentzer, Gironda, Platz and Ronnie Coleman trained heav...

1:1 Mentorship → https://forgevirtue.com/ Check out my video on why you're not lazy (it's much worse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W07OYChR8Y The desert fathers had a name for the man who is always busy, always out with his mates, always with something playing in the background. They called him the noonday devil. From the outside it looks like a full life. Underneath, he is running from silen...

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 sin...

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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 neglec...

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...

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 participati...

Podcast in reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdkwqkE20M You 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 sam...

Chapters 1:19 How can fathers repair relationships with sons 13:16 Young man asking a woman for inappropriate photos 16:20 Where can I get FFTK Merch 16:52 How to Structure Morning Prayer 21:26 Would you take TRT when you get older 25:14 Helping teenage boys become real men 36:33 New haircut 36:57 Women being strong without becoming girl bosses 45:33 How do you overcome lust Live Q&A on faith,...

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 n...

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 b...

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 sta...

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...

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 t...

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 Chris...

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...

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 thre...

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 r...

LIVE: Standing Against the Demonic Blasphemy in Sydney - Prayer Protest at Unholy Playhouse with Liam Aquilina & Tomas Mones-Cazon Join 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...

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 au...

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....