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On February 18, 2026, Mark Wahlberg and Jonathan Roumie went on Fox News to remind Americans that faith still matters and that Ash Wednesday and Lent are more than quaint rituals — they are a hard, renewing discipline that our country desperately needs. In a moment when elites treat religion like an eccentric hobby, these two men stood up on national television and spoke plainly about prayer, sacrifice, and spiritual seriousness.
Wahlberg has long lived his faith in public, and Roumie has become a recognizable voice of Catholic devotion through his work with the Hallow app, which the pair used as a platform to encourage a 40-day prayer challenge this Lent. Their visibility exploded after a widely watched Super Bowl commercial that invited Americans to pray together, and the surge in downloads showed there is hunger for spiritual stability across this nation.
Roumie warned that the “noise” of modern culture keeps getting louder, and he urged Christians to use Lent as a season of meditation and resilience to resist that pressure. That message matters because the left’s cultural project is to replace conviction with distraction, and a disciplined season of reflection is the exact antidote.
Hollywood and many media institutions sneer at public displays of faith, but Wahlberg’s example — getting up early to pray, prioritizing family and service, and using his fame to call others back to God — is precisely the kind of moral leadership we should applaud. It takes courage to be openly devout in an industry that rewards compromise, and Americans who care about restoring common sense and decency should celebrate rather than cancel such courage.
This season of Lent is not just personal piety; it is civic renewal. When citizens practice honesty, self-denial, and repentance, they become harder to manipulate and easier to trust, which strengthens families, churches, and communities against the chaos pushed by a radical cultural elite.
If you’re wondering how to start, join the serious-minded effort Wahlberg and Roumie are promoting or simply set aside time each morning for prayer and reflection — forty focused days can rewire a life and, by extension, a country. The surge in people turning to tools like the Hallow app after the Super Bowl demonstrates that millions are quietly rejecting the noise and choosing spiritual discipline instead, and that movement deserves support from every patriot who wants America restored.
