LIAM Neeson has lent his voice to a Catholic prayer app for smartphones, with the Hollywood star studying the work of Belfast author C.S Lewis.
The Ballymena-born actor has partnered with the Hallow app, which may be downloaded to telephones and used to information folks in Catholic prayers and meditations.
The app has seen virtually 4 million downloads since its launch in 2018, and every Christmas it runs a ‘Pray25’ introduction marketing campaign to information customers in prayers all through December.
The app’s creators have introduced Liam Neeson as a voice for this yr’s marketing campaign and the Taken star will learn samples of writings by C.S Lewis.
The east Belfast creator, who died in 1963, penned the favored Chronicles of Narnia books, and was a religious Christian, although was of Anglican religion reasonably than a Roman Catholic.
Mr Neeson voiced the CGI character of the lion Aslan in movie variations of three of the Narnia books, starting with 2005’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
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He’s being joined by New York actor Jonathan Roumie, who starred as Jesus in TV drama The Chosen, and Catholic speaker Sister Miriam James Heidland, in delivering readings for the app’s introduction providing.
The app’s creators say the trio “will information you in each day prayer for 4 weeks of Creation with reflections primarily based on totally different works of Lewis, together with The 4 Loves, Mere Christianity, The Nice Divorce, and extra”.
They add: “The each day prayer problem will assist you to decelerate and discover quiet this Creation.
“On this quiet, Creation Pray 25 will assist you to see how the wishes of your coronary heart level to much more and larger than what the world provides.”
Talking of his involvement, Mr Neeson mentioned his readings will “assist information of us by some lovely meditations”, including it was an “honour” to participate.
