Hollywood Actors Share Stories of Faith and Redemption

Jim Carrey He publicly exposes his faith and publishes it on his social networks. On his Instagram profile he has stated that “In recent years I have had challenges and I think that suffering leads to salvation. We have to somehow accept and not reject, feel our sufferings and our losses and then we can choose between going through the door of resentment that leads to revenge or cross the door of forgiveness, which leads to grace, just as Christ did”.

Jim Carrey has presented these statements in a rehabilitation center for former gang members and juvenile prisoners in the city of Los Angeles. The actor, known for his comedic performances in films such as “The Mask” (1994), “The Grinch” (2000), “The Truman Show” (1998) and “A Christmas Carol” (2009), is not the only one Hollywood actor who has declared his faith publicly.

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Faith has also reached other Hollywood actors

Mark Wahlbergalso a Hollywood actor, He considers himself Catholic and is a recognized practitioner.. For his followers, he is in the best moment of his career and he himself has declared that all his success “it goes hand in hand with my reunion with God through the Eucharist”. Furthermore, he also declared in an interview with ‘Time’ magazine that “everything good that has happened in my life has been because of my faith.”

In a talk he gave at University of Chicago, He explained his conversion story to a group of young people. Although he was raised in a Christian home, at age 13 he was expelled from school and was even accused of involuntary manslaughter. “Many people turn to God, especially when he encounters problems. When the prison bars closed behind me I started praying the right way”. Among some of his most famous films, we find: “Transformers” (2014), Contrabando (2012), Ted (2012) or The Lovely Bones (2009), among many others.

Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verástegui and Sylvester Stallone also became

Jim Caviezelthe American actor known worldwide for his performance in “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) and directed by Mel Gibson. It was during filming when he converted to Catholicism and this marked a radical change in his life and also in his career.

Faith also came into the life of the Mexican actor Eduardo Verastegui when at the age of 27 he began to ask himself questions about his spiritual dimension and what the purpose of his life was and what he was dedicating it to. Little by little she began to realize that Faith had to take center stage and his life changed completely.. In many of the interviews he has given, he has always reiterated that he never broke the promise he made when he converted: he would never again participate in a project that hurt his Catholic faith, his family and his Latin community, and that is how it has been. His last movie “Sound of Freedom”, It has raised more than three hundred million dollars and has become the number one independent film directed and produced by Mexicans in the history of cinema.

“I began to put everything in God’s hands”

Sylvester Stallone He is another of those actors who needs no introduction: a real Hollywood star and protagonist of classics in the history of cinema such as ‘Rocky’ about ‘Rambo’. When her two-month-old baby had to undergo heart surgery, the actor’s life changed and faith entered her through the front door. “I began to put everything in the hands of God, his omnipotence, his forgiveness.”. In this way, Stallone stopped trusting his own judgment and began to ask for light from Cristo: “I thought If I put myself in the hands of Jesus and ask for understanding and guidanceI am basically taking the yoke off myself and using His intelligence and wisdom to make the right decisions.“