W's Prayer to St. Clare
As a child, my mom (a very prayerful person) taught us about asking help from saints' in times of need. She told me (us) that when you call them and pray their novena, they'll be your bridge to God. Our mom gave us prayer cards with novenas to St. Jude, St. Expeditus, St. Clare and a lot more. When we took our entrance exams and board exams, she told us to go offer eggs to the monastery of St. Clare. She also reminded us to buy our #2 Mongol pencils ahead of time and have them blessed there. --- All of these we obediently followed. I may not be as prayerful as my mom, but the things I mentioned above were definitely imprinted on my mind. After all, we (me & my siblings) all passed our exams after doing those. =) My sister even offered eggs last year for good weather when we organized our biennial family reunion (which was a success by the way). And so now that I am a mommy too, I can't help myself but pass the same custom to my son. When W's ab...