Actor Mark Wahlberg brings faith to the modern era, sharing how the application of Catholic Hallow prayer deepened his spiritual journey, just in time for the season of Lent.
“I would say that I am nothing more than a humble servant of God,” Wahlberg told Fox News, main foreign correspondent Benjamin Hall. “I was put in this position for a specific reason.”
Wahlberg is a key figure of Hallow, an application of prayer and Catholic meditation which helps users to integrate faith into their daily routines. This Lent, “Hallow” launches its Pray40 challenge for Lent, featuring special guests leading to daily prayer and meditation sessions.
For Wahlberg, Lent is a deeply significant period, a season of reflection and renewal which brings him closer to God.
“This is a reminder that I have to do more, and I must be better,” he said. “There are things that are in my life that are distracting and that move away from my concentration on the construction of my relationship and bring me closer to God. Of course, to live this life filled with the goal he has chosen for me.”
Lent begins today, ash Wednesday and lasts until Easter Sunday in April. As part of the Hallow Challenge, Wahlberg will be joined by his colleague actor Chris Pratt and other guests in special sessions focused on fasting, one of the central pillars of Lent.
Wahlberg thinks that Lent is not only a question of personal sacrifice, but also to recognize human imperfections and to endeavor to be better.
“I think we all have things to repent,” he told Hall.
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“I had a very very troubled childhood. So far, just you know, being impatient with people, being short with people, not being as understanding, as thoughtful. You are caught in all these things every day in your life. There is only one person who was perfect who traveled this earth, and it was Jesus. And everyone should be a little more attentive.”
Last year during Lent, Hallow marked history by becoming the Application # 1 on the Apple App StoreThe first time that a religious application has reached first place. Wahlberg hopes that his success will continue, helping young people to establish a stronger link with their faith and to avoid the mistakes he made in his youth.
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“Encourage young people to help them avoid making the same mistakes I made and that others make … with God in your life every day, this allows you to be in the position you can make the right choices,” said Wahlberg.
“I did, I do not know 50, 60 films. People always come to me and say something. But most of the time now … People generally talk about Hallow, and how it has changed their lives. Either reconnect them after they were unleashed, or, you know, find a path to meet and be presented to God and faith for the first time in their lives.”
With the Prime40 challenge of the Lent of Hallow in progress, Wahlberg and other religious leaders invite people around the world to join the prayer, reflection and renewal of this wrestling season.
