Time flies and so do saints.

Hard to believe that it is finals week already. Time really does fly. We are all occupied with examination period that we don't have time to think about anything else. Yet as we devise our plans of action for studying for our exams and finishing our projects, let us remember it is okay to speak to God about your frustrations and worry about exams, understands. Yet, God is also with us to keep us calm and focused. Allow Him to speak to your hearts and minds that you may demonstrate your understanding effectively. 


When I was a freshmen in high school taking my French final, my Ministry & Service leader Lisa was our proctor for the exam. Before handing it out she led us in a prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino. St. Joseph was an Italian Franciscan friar, honored as both a mystic and a saint. He was prone to miraculous levitations and intense ecstatic visions. He is recognized as the patron saint of students taking examinations, as well as air travelers, aviators and astronauts. He was canonized in 1767 by Pope Clement XIII). So ever since freshmen year of high school I offer a prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino come final examination time. 

O St. Joseph of Cupertino who by your prayer obtained from God 

to be asked at your examination, the only preposition you knew. 

Grant that I may like you succeed in the _________ examination. 

In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked.

O St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for me

O Holy Ghost, enlighten me

Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me

Sacred Head of Jesus, Seat of divine wisdom, enlighten me.

Amen.