Why Do We Celebrate The Conversion Of St. Paul?

Acts 22:3-16
Mark 16:15-18

We celebrate the dramatic story of conversion of St. Paul for it was the Eternal Light, Christ himself who took the initiative to convert Saul who at that time was the greatest persecutor of the early Church. This is a reminder that God’s love and compassion is greater than our human weaknesses and sufferings. Saul hatred for christians was so bitter that he even testified to the stoning of one of the first christian martyr St. Stephen Saul became Paul through grace and double as the greatest missionary in the life of the Church and the greatest evangelist as evident through his in the New Testament.

That is based on this reason that the early Christian community kept on glorifying God hearing that the one who was once persecuting them is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy. He goes to a place to raise a Christian community and writes back to check on them. He wrote most of the New Testament. We too are call to respond to God. Through our baptism, we too share in the vocation that Christ entrusted to St. Paul and to all his disciples’Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16: 15).May our lives be renewed by the light of Christ’s glory as we bear witness to marvelous deeds of God.

Fr Joseph Osho