This is my contribution today. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO04797j9gp/?igsh=ZjB3bmZmcXl4aTc2 This opened my eyes and gave me a different view of motivating myself. I know I still have to start small, be consistent, and savor the fruits of my labors, BUT why do I do it? What needs to be truly done that I can say I would die for my family? Does it mean die slowly from deadly sins or does it mean be ready to protect at all costs?

I am Elias Living in Windsor, Ontario. I found this group by searching on Skool Application. I am so Happy to see people like you are still interested in the Catholic faith . My goal is to meet people like you so we can support each other in all areas as a brothers in Christ.

I told myself I would stop jerking off if I ever got a second chance at life n now that I did I started messing with this one ex I had n boom I would end up doing it n it wasn’t random either Well after my car accident I started listening to prophetic words online n they would tell me not to do it so i didn’t n one time that chick asked me to stay the night one time n out of nowhere after every profetic word i would get about not jerking off I would hear this little voice in my head telling me to do n totally go against the video i just watched n that happened like twice so i prayed that witchcraft wouldn’t work against me n boom one of those videos comes right after the prayer n me being as skeptical as I am i thought it can’t come this soon ill stop jerking off on the next video i see n little did o know that was my answered prayer so little heads up to anyone that is going through that don’t listen to the little voice in your head n don’t go against anything god is trying to tell you

Fr. William Frederick Faber was a great spiritual writer and theologian in the 19th century. He, much like his close friend of much greater renown, Saint John Henry Newman, was a convert from Anglicanism. In fact, the good Fr. Faber attributes his conversion to the luminous example and intellectual prowess of Saint John Henry Newman. In his wonderful spiritual classic ‘Growth in Holiness’, Fr. Faber thus explains the necessity of mortification and how it ought to be properly understood: “The true idea of mortification is, that it is the love of Jesus, urged into that shape partly in imitation of Him, partly to express its own vehemence, and partly to secure by an instinct of self-preservation its own perseverance… Mortification is both interior and exterior, and of course the superior excellence of the interior is beyond question. But if there is one doctrine more important than another on this subject, it is that there can be no interior mortification without exterior; and this last must come first. In a word, to be spiritual, bodily mortification is indispensable.” There has been a very effeminate and pusillanimous trend running in the Church for some years now, especially among men, that bodily penance is a thing of the rigorous past and that it is unnecessary for salvation—especially by pointing to Saint Thérèse the Little Flower (forgetting she used the discipline thrice a week as a Carmelite and abstained from meat almost year round). But, as the learned Fr. Faber explains, bodily mortification is indispensable to attain to interior mortification of the will, and for union with God. Let this thought be a fresh motivation for us when it comes to our physical fitness journeys. But let us also heed the warning of the same pious Fr. Faber: “Neither must we forget to be on our guard against a superstitious idea of the value of pain growing up in our mind alongside our austerities. Many mortifications remain mortifications when the pain of them has passed away; and the value of them depends upon the intensity of the supernatural intention that was in them, not on the amount of physical pain or bodily discomfort.”

Man, I don’t know how to discipline myself. Goggins is who I study just does stuff because it sucks. I want his mindset. As a newly born catholic are iwe capable of this? How should a catholic look at exercise? What’s the mindset? I know it’s important but does it make room for building character and willpower through discipline?