the untiring evangelizer, be a time for renewing our missionary heart. ‘Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel’ (1 Cor 9,16).
Oscar Andres Cardenal Rodriguez Maradiaga, SDB
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
Gates of Heaven; two lamps for the great world.
Paul thunders with the Word,
Peter flashes from the Rock;
The first opens Heaven with his doctrine,
the other with the keys...
Venantius Fortunatus
Peter flashes from the Rock;
The first opens Heaven with his doctrine,
the other with the keys...
Venantius Fortunatus
Dear brothers and sisters,
as in early times, today too Christ needs apostles ready to sacrifice themselves. He needs
witnesses and martyrs like St. Paul.
Pope Benedict XVI
June 28, 2007
witnesses and martyrs like St. Paul.
Pope Benedict XVI
June 28, 2007
Many great saints
have built their lives on Galatians 2:20: “It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.”
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
St. Paul introduces himself
as the teacher of the gentiles. His universality should be seen not only with regard to the peoples he converted, but from the point of view of his all-embracing learning.
Blessed James Alberione
Blessed James Alberione
In his letters and still more
in the course of his ministry, Paul gives us a clue to his approach: He is the "Preacher of truth all over the world. " He is the teacher, Magister, as he declares himself.
Blessed James Alberione
Blessed James Alberione
The Cross of Jesus Christ
is at the center of all that Paul does. He teaches us how to deal with the hardships and grief of life.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Some of those Churches
also caused him worry and chagrin.... Yet, he felt bound to the Communities he founded in a way that was far from cold and bureaucratic but rather intense and passionate. Thus, for example, he described the Philippians as "my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown" (Phil 4: 1).
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
The Year of Saint Paul
is a time for us to stand on the shoulders of Catholic saints through the centuries and to live
Paul’s life-changing words in ways that address the world’s need for holiness in the 21st Century.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Paul’s life-changing words in ways that address the world’s need for holiness in the 21st Century.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
In his few brief letters
Paul repeats the name of Jesus a good 219 times, and the name of Christ 401 times.
Cornelius A'Lapide, SJ
Cornelius A'Lapide, SJ
Paul was aware of his personal weaknesses,
his intellectual and personality shortcomings, his unnamed struggle with “a thorn in his flesh.”(2 Corinthians 12:7) But his humble awareness of these weaknesses only made him more reliant on Christ.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Paul's understanding
of his personal weakness drove him to open up to the presence and power of Christ within him.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
There is no one
who loved Christ more ardently than Paul, and no one who was more pleasing to God than Paul.
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
We know from Paul’s life
that at the heart of conversion is a surrender to the love of the Risen Lord.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
But if there is one tenet
to which Paul stuck firmly it was mutual edification: "Let all things be done for edification" (I Cor 14: 26). Everything contributes to weaving the ecclesial fabric evenly, not only without slack patches but also without holes or tears.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Paul uses maternal imagery
more often than he does paternal imagery, a feature that is impressive, especially when we consider its virtual absence from most discussions of the Pauline letters.
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Our Mother St. Paul
Westminster John Knox
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Our Mother St. Paul
Westminster John Knox
Paul appeared to [me] to be truly
the apostle. Therefore every apostle and every apostolate could draw from him.
Bl. James Alberione
Bl. James Alberione
Paul taught: "Do not quench the Spirit"
(I Thes 5: 19), that is, make room generously for the unforeseeable dynamism of the charismatic manifestations of the Spirit, who is an ever new source of energy and vitality.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Christ lived within him
as the initial force, the sustaining power, and the ultimate purpose of his every thought, wish, word and deed.
Dionysius
Dionysius
It was his [Paul's] ambition
to lead every person to God and as far as lay within his power he realized his ambition.
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
Paul was steeped
in love for God and for Christ.... This love permeated his writings and he infused it in those with whom he came in contact.
Cornelius A'Lapide, SJ
Cornelius A'Lapide, SJ
St. Paul lived the whole Christ:
he plumbed the profound mysteries of his doctrine, of his heart, of his holiness, of his humanity and divinity.
Bl. James Alberione
Abundantes Divitiae Gratiae Suae (1954)
Bl. James Alberione
Abundantes Divitiae Gratiae Suae (1954)
St. Paul has a heart that is rarely found,
the heart of a father and a mother in one: of a mother who loves immensely, and of a father who upholds and strengthens.
Bl. James Alberione
(Sermon, February 1938)
Bl. James Alberione
(Sermon, February 1938)
My grandfather, I'm told,
used to say that he "looked forward to having some very interesting conversations with St. Paul when he got to heaven." Two clerical gentlemen talking at ease in a club! It never seemed to cross his mind that an encounter with St. Paul might be rather an overwhelming experience for an Evangelical clergyman of good family. But when Dante saw the great apostles in heaven they affected him like mountains."
C.S. Lewis
Letters to Malcolm, letter 2
C.S. Lewis
Letters to Malcolm, letter 2
He lived and worked for Christ,
for him he suffered and died. How timely is his example today!
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
[Paul's life as a persecutor]
... gave him an extended insight, on the one hand, into the ways and designs of Providence, and, on the other hand, into the workings of sin in the human heart, and the various modes of thinking in which the mind is actually trained.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Saint Paul understood
how sin works in human nature and how the Holy Spirit can completely transform habits of corruption.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Bishop Michael Saltarelli
Once persecutor of Christ's flock
its staunch defender you became
when, driven by the love divine,
your former self you overcame.
Hymn to St. Paul, "Pressi Malorum"
when, driven by the love divine,
your former self you overcame.
Hymn to St. Paul, "Pressi Malorum"
On the one hand,
Paul was the recipient of God's power, whereas the newcomers [to Corinth] were (professed) executors of power; and on the other, God's power rested upon Paul in weakness, whereas the newcomers believe that God multiplied his power out of their power.
Paul Barnett
Paul, Missionary of Jesus
ISBN 978-0-8028-4891-8
Paul Barnett
Paul, Missionary of Jesus
ISBN 978-0-8028-4891-8
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