The best way that we can celebrate the Year of Saint Paul is to go to the Risen Lord and ask him about what deep and intimate conversion of life he is calling us to.
We know from Paul's life that at the heart of conversion is a surrender to the love of the Risen Lord. Any interior movement leading from pride to humility, anger to mildness, greed to detachment, lust to a chaste spirit, envy to joy in the talents of others, sloth to zeal, gluttony (including Internet, television, cell phone, and Blackberry gluttony!) to temperance is a surrender to the power of Christ's love within. This love allows us to let go of the fear of surrendering completely to Christ so that we can see others with the eyes of Christ.
~ Bishop Michael Saltarelli (Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware)
1/26/2009
The Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
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