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This Actor Won’t Give Up Daily Prayer Time: ‘Most Important Thing’
MovieGuide ^ | Feb 2025

Posted on 05/19/2025 9:43:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Mark Wahlberg might take a day off from the gym, but he never lets a day go by without praying.

“That’s the most important thing,” the actor said in an interview. “I take a day off, I take two days a week off from the gym now. I don’t take a day off from getting on my hands and knees and reading my prayer book and my daily devotionals.”

“Everything derives from my prayer life and my pursuit of my faith and a relationship with God, of course, trying to live a purpose-filled life,” he told The Christian Post, adding that it’s especially helpful when he’s playing darker roles.

He explained, “If I act like a crazy person for 12 hours out of the day, I come back, and I say another little prayer, and I ask for forgiveness. We are trying to entertain people. We want to break up the monotony of everyday difficulty. A lot of people are having real struggles and hard times in life, and so to be able to give them something to escape and enjoy and laugh and cry and be at the edge of their seat with a movie like this, which is such a thrill ride.”

Wahlberg’s most recent project is FLIGHT RISK, a Mel Gibson-directed action movie that sees Wahlberg play the bad guy.

“It’s a blast,” he told FOX 5 of playing a villain.

(Excerpt) Read more at movieguide.org ...


TOPICS: Prayer
KEYWORDS: actor; hollywood; markwahlberg; prayer; wahlberg
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1 posted on 05/19/2025 9:43:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Mental illness masquerading as religious piety.


2 posted on 05/19/2025 10:38:28 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Mental illness masquerading as religious piety.

Huh? What have you got against Mark Wahlberg? He seems like a decent guy.

3 posted on 05/19/2025 11:28:04 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Mark Wahlberg is the real deal and a good God believing man, no small feat in Hollywood or a modern age where some beleive they are god.


4 posted on 05/19/2025 11:33:38 PM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: SpaceBar

Explain that forum scold would ya?


5 posted on 05/19/2025 11:42:10 PM PDT by wardaddy (The Blob must be bled dry)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

bttt


6 posted on 05/19/2025 11:55:07 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SpaceBar
Everyone is a sinner and falls short of the glory of God.

“It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mark 2:17)

7 posted on 05/20/2025 12:09:20 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Angelino97

He’s a Democrat.


8 posted on 05/20/2025 12:11:10 AM PDT by roving
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Gibson and Wahlberg are two of my favorites but "Flight Risk" sucked!

Pray for wisdom to not take on any more pathetic plots/scripts.

9 posted on 05/20/2025 2:46:16 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: roving

No he is not dummy


10 posted on 05/20/2025 4:16:51 AM PDT by hollywood12345 (. )
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To: SpaceBar

“Mental illness masquerading as religious piety.” I’m sure your master is very proud of you for saying this.
Nevertheless, here’s how it works: For those who know no explanation is necessary; for those that don’t know no explanation is possible.
Turn away and come back to the light of our loving God.


11 posted on 05/20/2025 4:27:12 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: jmaroneps37; EnderWiggin1970; wardaddy; Angelino97; SpaceBar

A quick perusal of spacebar’s posting history revels he/she/it to be a one or two sentence low-information commenter, with no substance but lots of Inferiority, erm, Superiority complex.

Pray for him/her/it.


12 posted on 05/20/2025 5:12:18 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Now and then I will skip my reading and prayers. Feels like starting the day without coffee, everything is just off a bit.


13 posted on 05/20/2025 5:33:25 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Praise God. He is easily one of my favorite actors along with Dennis Quaid.


14 posted on 05/20/2025 5:54:03 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: SpaceBar

I believe Mark is a true believer in his religious duties..........


15 posted on 05/20/2025 6:09:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Theophilus
Gibson and Wahlberg are two of my favorites but "Flight Risk" sucked!

Just another mediocre movie out of Hollywood. There are thousands of them, just peruse netflix or amazon prime.

16 posted on 05/20/2025 6:15:35 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: TECTopcat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg_filmography


17 posted on 05/20/2025 6:28:27 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: SpaceBar; .45 Long Colt; Apple Pan Dowdy; BDParrish; Big Red Badger; BlueDragon; boatbums; ...
Mental illness masquerading as religious piety.

Meaning you denigrate that not just prayer to false deities and or to the departed, which this Catholic actor likely includes, but than prayer is simply "mental illness?"

Which must mean you believe in a Creator who has no interest in being a person's God, the ultimate source of security, object of allegiance, and spiritual affection, who communicates and is to be communicated with. Or you are an atheist/anti-theist, a person of great faith. Who believes that an exceedingly vast, systematically ordered universe, exquisitely finely tuned for life with profound intricate, elaborate complexity and extensive diversity, can be all a result of purely natural processes\.

Which indeed requires much faith.

More so i submit, than that the universe logically testifies to design, requiring a First Cause (at the least), that of a being of supreme power and intelligence being behind the existence of energy and organization of matter, and laws regarding the same.

18 posted on 05/20/2025 6:48:20 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: SpaceBar

Mark Wahlberg is a devout Catholic. There’s nothing fake about it.


19 posted on 05/20/2025 8:20:57 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Marky Mark grew up.


20 posted on 05/20/2025 8:21:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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