Prisoner of Christ,

holy and wise,
With hope-filled hearts we look to you in this hour.

Hymn to St. Paul (French)

If Paul were alive today,

he would continue to blaze with that twofold flame of one and the same fire: zeal for God and his Christ, and for the people of every place.
Bl. James Alberione

The roots of Paul's life,

secret and public, reach deeply into his charisms and mystical experiences; without these, it is unexplainable."
Giuseppe Ricciotti
Paul the Apostle

The pilot is proven

in the storm, the soldier in battle. The deep-rooted tree is never displaced even t hough the winds may buffet it. So, too, the Apostle Paul...spoke of not being downhearted but rather of being made better by adversities...
St. Cyprian of Carthage

Such is the closeness

of his identification with Christ that, as Christ suffered 'for' (hyper) others (as in 5:21), so too did Paul. Paul has been afflicted for (hyper) the Corinthians' 'comfort and salvation' (1:6); he has been 'spent for (hyper) [their] souls' (12:15). Paul does not use the specific language of 'imitating' Christ in this letter, as he does elsewhere, but the idea is present."
Paul Barnett

Paul, Missionary of Jesus
ISBN 978-0-8028-4891-8

By the same grace of God,

and at the same time, Paul was called by Him to the grace of the faith and to the apostolate.
Cornelius A' Lapide, SJ

At yet other times,

he showed a real feeling for them that was not only paternal but also maternal, such as when he turned to those he was addressing, calling them: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you" (Gal 4: 19).

Pope Benedict XVI

Such was his longing for Christ

that he wanted to defer his reward and remain amid the struggle; those were his priorities.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 2 in Praise of St. Paul

Though housed

in a narrow prison, Paul dwelt in Heaven.


St. John Chrysostom
Homily 2 in Praise of St. Paul

Paul would have run short on people to evangelize

before he would ever fall short of serving them.

Bl. James Alberione

I give you as a model

the charity of Paul which he showed to his new converts...

St. John Bosco

Those who know St. Paul

know Jesus Christ. Those who imitates St. Paul imitate Jesus Christ. Those who have the heart of St. Paul have the heart of Jesus Christ.
Blessed James Alberione

You see how far the holy Apostle was

from security and self-satisfaction, though he, if any one, would have had a right to feel easy about his state. And the exhortation he gives his children is, "So run, that ye may obtain."

John Henry Cardinal Newman

The Christ, Who conquered him,

will parade him on the highways of the world, as His captive and His slave. As for Saul, he will find the hours of his life always too few to attest adequately his love for the One who had loved him enough to strike him to the heart.
Henri Daniel-Rops

He teaches the equality

of Jew and Greek, of Greek and Barbarian and Scythian. This was the surest way to solicit the insults of Jew and Greek, Barbarian and Scythian together.
Giuseppe Ricciotti

My prayer is Paul's,

my apostolate is Paul's, so that they may be Christ's prayer and apostolate.
Blessed James Alberione

Above all, we must be

transparent before God, as Paul was: "It is not ourselves we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord ... shining in our hearts."
Renato Perino

Let's glorify Jesus, the Master

who revealed the manifold wisdom of God to St. Paul.
Blessed James Alberione

In Galatians 4:19 ...

... Paul remains in labor, not until the child is born, but until Christ is born in the child.

Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Our Mother St. Paul
(Westminster John Knox)

Admiration of and devotion to St. Paul

...began especially with study and meditation of letter to the Romans. From then on, his personality, his holiness, his heart, his intimacy with Jesus, his contribution to dogmatic and moral teaching, the mark he left on the Church's organization, his zeal for all the nations: all became subjects of meditation.
Blessed James Alberione

[Paul's] powerful soul

outstrips his weak body; but it is his intelligence that transcends time and space and embraces heaven and earth, the past and the future and one marvelous synthesis.
Blessed James Alberione

No one is a missionary

unless he or she is a person of profound prayer: prayer with a particular characteristic that we can call apostolic, and that we find expressed in many points in the letters of St. Paul.

Renato Perino

[Paul] feels everything

that happens to them; when one of them is weak, he is weak; when another undergoes some deep spiritual crisis he is aflame..."
Giuseppe Ricciotti
Paul the Apostle