Ask And Ye Shall Receive

I was a little sad when I realized that today at the University Catholic Center at UCLA, they would be doing the blessing of the brains. Probably the busiest time at the UCC (no, not the uniform commercial code for all you law dorks) was right before finals week. In addition to more people being at school to study on the weekend, more people also went for some peace of mind and to get a brain blessing. I always remember being a little bitter at sometimes not having a seat at those masses, kind of like how I'm slightly bitter when it's so hard to get a seat at Christmas & Easter mass (I know, Catholic means universal and we're supposed to be welcoming, I'm working on it).

Anyway, I was bummed that I couldn't get my brain blessed and Alex suggested that I just ask the priest for a blessing. Unfortunately last week, the priest presiding over the mass is the seemingly mean priest that I don't really care for. So I was really excited when I saw the priest that I like this week (his first homily that I heard was about how college kids sharing pizza is like breaking bread).

So after mass I mustered up the courage and asked him for a brain blessing. He kind of looked at me funny and then I explained how at my old parish they used to give us a blessing for finals week. He was happy to do it and we chatted for a little bit about finals, taking the bar, and law school. I accidently told him that I had taken 2 finals already, when I meant to say that I had taken a final and turned in a big paper, but I didn't realize until I started walking away. I felt horrible for feeling like I lied to a priest, especially after he gave me a blessing, but I have to admit I was a little nervous. I always tend to get nervous asking people for things (yeah working on that too), even priests who do this for a living and who are very nice. But I'm glad I did it and now I have a little extra help from the Big Guy.