With good reason,

dearly beloved, is the conversion of the Teacher of the Nations being celebrated today by all the nations with joyful festivities. We see the many branches that have come forth from this root.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Sermons for the Advent and Christmas Season
Cistercian Publications
Kalamazoo, MI

Through the nations,

may your words re-echo
Once again giving light, faith and love.
May each young heart be inflamed with great ardor,
An heir of your word and your wisdom.

Hymn to St. Paul

Paul's was a life given

in total love to the divine Master and to souls. It was a life of toil and exhaustion, of suffering, of prayer and of immolation.

Blessed James Alberione

And yet this man,

born to command and impose his personality on others, is above all a man of love. He needs to love others and to feel himself loved, otherwise life has no meaning for him.

Giuseppe Ricciotti
Paul the Apostle

[At his conversion]

Paul... realized that a new approach in his life was absolutely essential. And we find this new approach expressed in his words: "The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal 2: 20).

Pope Benedict XVI

Paul is a concrete embodiment

of Christ's death and resurrection incarnates his apostolic word, but focused as it is in Christ's death and resurrection. Paul preached Christ crucified and risen, and he embodied Christ crucified and risen. By this he validates both his apostleship and his gospel.

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

We ought to meditate

on the written and spoken, public and private words of Christ and Paul.

Blessed James Alberione