Compilation of Prayers

Prayer before an Exam

Dear Lord,

Sometimes I feel a little strange praying

to you because of an exam.
It doesn't really seem all that significant
when you consider the "big picture."
But right now, the test looms so large
that it is all I can see before me.

I pray to you for three things:

- the strength to handle the pressure that I feel,
- the confidence to feel secure
in my knowledge and preparation,
- and the ability to keep an appropriate
perspective on it all.
Help me to keep in mind what is really important,
even as I focus all of my time and energy
on this test in the immediate future. Amen

Prayer for a Successful Examination

Oh Great St. Joseph of Cupertino, who while on earth was given the grace of
being asked in your examination only the questions you know. Please obtain for
me the like favor in these examinations which I am now preparing for. In
return, I promise to invoke you and to make you known through Christ, Our
Lord. Amen.

Dear God Today I will take my examination which is so important to me.

Though I am nervous, I am not afraid
Because I know that as I write my answers
It is YOUR hands that work.

And now, as I take this examination

Please enlighten my mind
to be able to answer correctly
And to recall everything that I have studied.
I will do my best in this exam and to you God
I will entrust my fate
I knoW that whatever will be the result,
it is according to YOUR will.

YOU have watched me

As I worked hard to study for this exam
Although I don’t feel very confident
And I don’t know if I am prepared
I truly believe that YOU would give me what I deserve.
I deserve to pass this exam, God.

I am happy that today YOU are with me

For with YOU I will win this battle
And as I close my eyes and feel YOUR presence
In this examination room
YOU put confidence to my heart.
AMEN.

"O most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus,
people honor and invoke you universally, as the patron of hopeless
cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, for I am so helpless
and alone. Please help to bring me visible and speedy assistance. Come
to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation
and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings,
particularly (state your request) and that I may praise God with you
always."

"I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to
always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully
encourage devotion to you by publishing this request. Amen."

"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be Adored, Glorified, Loved & Preserved
throughout the world, now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, please pray
for me. Saint Jude, Worker of Miracles, please pray for me. Saint Jude,
Helper of the Hopeless, please pray for me. Amen."