“When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep,” the 80-year-old pontiff revealed in an interview for the TV2000 channel on YouTube yesterday.
“Saint Therese did it too,” he said, in reference to a 19th-century French nun – whose simplicity, he has said, has been a great influence on his life.
He added that praying should make Christians feel like children lying in their father’s arms, implying that relaxation is an important part of the process.
The Pope was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio and worked as a nightclub bouncer before beginning his seminary studies.
He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 and was Argentina’s provincial superior of the Society of Jesus from 1973 to 1979.
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He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a Cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
He values his sleep and is tucked up in bed each night by 9pm.
The Holy Father rises at 4am to start the day with prayer and has a nap after lunch.