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I was at Rosary last night, and a friend and I were walking back to the dorm last night (Thursday), both of us complaining about all the papers and exams, etc. we have that are stressing us out. I had an American Heritage exam today (Friday) and I’d gone through seven pages (typed, font size 12) of IDs and five pages of quotes from the primary sources to memorize, plus agonizing over the primary sources I’d never gotten around to reading because I’d been busy writing a Rhetoric and Great Books paper… and after a week of staying up late studying I was tired… tired… I probably knew 10% of the information. I’d pulled my weight, spending copious amounts of time studying, but everyone who’s had this professor before said his tests are killer, and that he tests on picky details (which are impossible to memorize because there are too many of them).
My friend told me about St. Joseph of Cupertino. I guess this St. Joseph only memorized one verse out of Luke and couldn’t remember anything else he needed in order to be ordained a priest. He went in for his exam and the one question they asked him was the one he knew the answer to, and then he got to be a priest. So, he’s the patron of test takers.
My friend showed me a prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino. He told me to say it for my exam and asked me to say it for his exam, too. So I did. Here’s the prayer:
O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino, who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favor in the examinations for which I am now preparing. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us.
I walked into the exam at 10 o’clock this morning. Jesus, I trust in you. I looked at the paper and… hey, I know this. We had a list of 16 people and had to identify 8 of them - I probably could have done 10. Similar with the quotes. It was crazy.
So, after the exam I saw my friend again and he said how’d the test go? And I said St. Joseph Cupertino is awesome.
“Why do Catholics worship saints?” they ask. We don’t worship saints; we ask them to pray for us and they ABSOLUTELY DO. Either that or it was sheer, incredibly improbable luck. Pretty sure he was praying for me. Pretty sure God heard. We venerate saints, we praise them for their general awesomeness because THEY ARE AWESOME. Not God-like. Still human. But pretty amazing, as far as humans go.
Anyway, that’s my story… weehee! I’m happy. And anyway, I promised St. Joseph of Cupertino I’d make him known and cause him to be invoked, and I thought what better way to do it than tell everyone here!
This intercession thing? So maybe they’re right; maybe it’s not true. But if it isn’t, it’s got a greater placebo effect than sugar pills, so I’ll believe it anyway.
St. Joseph of Cupertino, I think you’re my favorite saint now! You and St. Michael!
My friend told me about St. Joseph of Cupertino. I guess this St. Joseph only memorized one verse out of Luke and couldn’t remember anything else he needed in order to be ordained a priest. He went in for his exam and the one question they asked him was the one he knew the answer to, and then he got to be a priest. So, he’s the patron of test takers.
My friend showed me a prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino. He told me to say it for my exam and asked me to say it for his exam, too. So I did. Here’s the prayer:
O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino, who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favor in the examinations for which I am now preparing. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us.
I walked into the exam at 10 o’clock this morning. Jesus, I trust in you. I looked at the paper and… hey, I know this. We had a list of 16 people and had to identify 8 of them - I probably could have done 10. Similar with the quotes. It was crazy.
So, after the exam I saw my friend again and he said how’d the test go? And I said St. Joseph Cupertino is awesome.
“Why do Catholics worship saints?” they ask. We don’t worship saints; we ask them to pray for us and they ABSOLUTELY DO. Either that or it was sheer, incredibly improbable luck. Pretty sure he was praying for me. Pretty sure God heard. We venerate saints, we praise them for their general awesomeness because THEY ARE AWESOME. Not God-like. Still human. But pretty amazing, as far as humans go.
Anyway, that’s my story… weehee! I’m happy. And anyway, I promised St. Joseph of Cupertino I’d make him known and cause him to be invoked, and I thought what better way to do it than tell everyone here!
This intercession thing? So maybe they’re right; maybe it’s not true. But if it isn’t, it’s got a greater placebo effect than sugar pills, so I’ll believe it anyway.
St. Joseph of Cupertino, I think you’re my favorite saint now! You and St. Michael!
