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In an Instagram Live Wednesday morning, the Catholic-based Hallow app did a live stream with Jonathan Roumie, a devout Catholic who plays Jesus Christ in “The Chosen,” and actor and professing Christian Chris Pratt. 

“There are a lot of lives in need of saving,” said Pratt, who recently partnered up with Hallow’s Lent Pray40 Community prayer challenge alongside Catholic actor Mark Wahlberg. 

“I hope people turn right towards God and just feel that love and that hope and that joy that comes with God,” he continued. “I think God deserves everybody, no matter where you are, who you are … you’re deserving of God’s love. And I want to be part of that.”

“I want God to use me, and however he sees fit, to bring people to him so that their lives can be beautiful, so that they (can) connect to their eternal spirit in heaven and get to have heaven right here on Earth, and spend the rest of their days being a light,” Pratt said.

“I hope people turn right towards God and just feel that love and that hope and that joy that comes with God,” he continued. “I think God deserves everybody, no matter where you are, who you are … you’re deserving of God’s love. And I want to be part of that.”

According to a Hallow press release, Pratt will guide sessions on fasting alongside Wahlberg. Meanwhile, Roumie, who has regularly partnered with the Hallow app, will be guiding the prayer challenge with Sr. Miriam James Heidland, Fr. Mike Schmitz, and Wahlberg.

Roumie, who is a prominent figure associated with the Hallow app, has often narrated various prayers and Bible readings and appeared in ads promoting the app.

Photo Credit: ©Instagram/HallowApp

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