H/T to David Gibson for that nugget."Entourage" has become a curse for Mark Wahlberg on Sundays - because people approach him in church with story lines and requests to be on the hit show. Wahlberg, who is the producer of the series - which is based on his early days in Hollywood, admits a family trip to church has become a business meeting and he'd like others to leave him alone when he's worshiping.
He says, "I go to church and people ask me if they can be on 'Entourage,' what's gonna happen. I go to church to worship, I don't go to church to talk about it. The stuff that I did with my entourage back in the day is stuff that I'm not proud of and I'm asking forgiveness for; I don't want things brought up in church, but, if you go to church in Beverly Hills, those kind of things happen."
Dave also notes that Wahlberg is finally planning to marry his long-time girlfriend, and mother of his child. In a Catholic church, 'natch.
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I don't think this is a problem unique to Hollywood.
My wife is a Catholic school teacher, and we can't leave Mass without having at least 2 or 3 impromptu parent-teacher conferences.
I'm glad he's getting married in the Church :)
I am no Mark Whalberg, but I am surpised what people will do at Mass. My wife and I recently attended Sunday Mass at a different parish than we normally do. Just after Mass I knelt down to say a prayer before leaving, when a woman ran up to me tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I was new and "where I was from?". I turned to her and said "I'm praying". She then ran off with not so much as an apology. I am not angry and I understand her intentions were good, I just find it funny that someone would interupt someone's Mass/prayer whether famous or not.
There is a time and a place.
Mr. Whalberg should agitate for a TLM at his parish -- the ambience will be entirely different. Silence prevails out of respect for what takes place.
The liturgical know-it-alls who did away with our sacred traditions have done great dis-service to all of us and they have and will have a lot to answer for. Who was it that said "hell is paved with the skulls of bishops"?
--William
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