Actor Mark Wahlberg took to Instagram to congratulate his son and all other young Catholics for their Catholic Confirmations this month.
The 50-year-old Uncharted star posted photos of his family as they celebrated his son Michael’s conformation along with a caption joking, “So proud of this young man. Congrats buddy!! Even though mommy deserves most of the credit. Thanks babe.”
Wahlberg also posted a congratulatory video recorded in Europe, in which he encouraged all young Catholics everywhere who earned their confirmation this year.
“Good morning from Europe,” Wahlberg said. “Just got down on my hands and knees to express my gratitude on this beautiful day. Congratulations to my son Michael on making his confirmation. All the young people out there who were confirmed and taking their relationship with the lord into their adulthood, what a commitment you guys have made.”
….The woke mob has been trying to cancel the star for years. In June of 2020 after he wrote a social media post hoping that Americans could come together to cope with the murder of George Floyd and tagged it “Black Lives Matter,” leftists went on the attack, calling him a racist for an incident he was involved in when he was a teen in 1988….
This year, Wahlberg struck back, blasting the cancel culture for so quickly “giving up” on people who make mistakes.
Upon the release of Father Stu, Wahlberg said that the film has a very particular message.
“This movie has a very clear message that we are not going to give up on people,” Mark Wahlberg said. “We are not going to turn our backs on people because of mistakes that they’ve made. We are going to tell people and encourage people that nobody is beyond redemption and that we support you, we love you, we accept you for who you are….”
The above comes from a June 1 posting on Breitbart.
I like Mark Wahlberg and I too congratulate all who have RECEIVED their Confirmation, whether recently or sometime in their life. But a couple of things struck me in this article that need a little fine tuning. We cannot earn our Confirmation or make our Confirmation. The same is true of all of the Sacraments. They are a gift from God. I don’t know if Wahlberg used this language to describe the Sacraments, but it’s common language in Catholic Culture and represents an underlying thought that we have to work to earn God’s love. Faith and good works both flow from Grace, not the other way around. It’s like saying to your mom and dad: “What can I do to make you love me?” It’s impossible, usually because they already love you. God gives us this tremendous gift of Grace and we talk about earning it or making it. Change the language and change the culture.
The earning language comes from having to attend two years of boring confirmation classes taught by people who pretty much don’t know what they’re talking about or watching videos that the people who can’t teach play for the kids. It’s boring and ineffective.
No wonder lots and lots of kids stop going to Mass and youth group after receiving Confirmation. They’re glad to be done with it.
The Church has huge problems with bad catechesis.
Do you have a website or schedule for your upcoming catechetical offering? Looking forward to it!