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Perplexed junior monk in monastery kitchen approaching his superior: “How do we cook canned ham?”

I got into the habit of adding a prayer to a saint or two in between decades of the rosary.  This originated with a set of audio cassettes on praying the rosary I got from a publisher with  ‘St Joseph’ in its name, and they put “St Joseph, pray for us” after each decade. Well, my list of saints began to grow, keeping the great St Joseph of course, and adding my favorite,  Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks. Then I added Saint Teresa of the Andes and Saint Alberto Hertado, whose biographies touched me when I saw them on EWTN. As others ‘joined’ my group, the brainstorm hit me to add those saints who have been important in my life, like St Boniface and St Thomas Aquinas, patrons of my schools. Then, the roll call becoming a bit unweildly, it hit me to organize them chronologically in the order in which they entered or influenced my life, with St William, my name saint, at the start, continuing with the roll call in the nice orderly sequence I found so easy to remember,  and which  reinforced my sense of being personally blessed and involved with the holy asemblage. Try it!