30 day prayer to st joseph

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He could never expound a Sunday Gospel in a way to satisfy his professors one only text seemed to take hold of him, and on that he could always be eloquent speaking from knowledge which was not found in books. With all his good intentions he learnt to read with the greatest difficulty, and, says his biographer, his writing was worse. “His superiors set him to his studies, in the hope that he might learn enough to be ordained, but the effort seemed hopeless. To the shock of his confreres, who thought he would never aspire to the priesthood, he became a priest.Īt seminary, it came time for him to take his final exams, the examiner asked St Joseph of Cupertino a question on the only Biblical text that he knew by heart and that he loved to expound upon. However, despite his mental shortcomings, and constant ribbing and abuse from his fellow friars, God granted him many favors. His Life With the Friars & Ordination to the PriesthoodĮven after being admitted to the Order, St Joseph of Cupertino had a difficult time.

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