Comedian Frank Skinner Prayer is the one place you can be “as profoundly you as you can be,” TV star Frank Skinner told the BBC’s Songs of Praise recently.
The famous comedian, writer, TV presenter and actor spoke of his up-and-down relationship with the Faith but revealed the importance it has in his life at this stage.
“I don’t remember not having it (faith). I’m a cradle Catholic. I was already fully signed-up by the time I became aware of the world, and it’s always been at the core of my being.
“When I was 19, I left the Catholic Church, which was a major family turmoil. But I left not because I stopped believing, but I had doubts about the Catholic Church,” Mr Skinner said.
He went on to read “every anti-Catholic book” he could find so as to be convinced of his decision, but that it “didn’t work”.
He recently wrote A Comedian’s Prayer Book, which he attributed to his deep interest in prayer.
“I’m very interested in prayer. I pray twice a day as a standard thing, and a bit more when I’m in the bookies,” he laughed.
“I would say prayer is the only area of my life where I am completely free, honest, there’s no act, there’s no front. Even with your loved ones, there are things where you are sensitive to what you say and what you don’t say. Just to have that place where you are you, as profoundly you as you can be.”