St. Paul did not really fall off his high horse on the road to Damascus. There’s no horse in the Bible story, and we probably got the idea from the famous depiction of St. Paul’s conversion by the ...

You can find today’s readings here. “On that journey as I drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from the sky suddenly shone around me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘I ...

Saint Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience which was the meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. In one moment, he realized that the zeal of his dynamic personality had ...

St. Luke tells about the conversion, then missioning, of St. Paul on three different occasions: Acts 9, 22 and 26. Though the number of details which change in these three accounts is great, there is ...

For sheer, earthshaking impact, the fall from a horse that turned Saul of Tarsus into St. Paul may be unequaled in the annals of Church history. That's why the Church celebrates the mysterious ...

When we realize that the letters of St. Paul predated the four gospels and were in circulation as they were being composed by the evangelists, we see the profound influence he had on the formation of ...

The conversion of Paul the Apostle was a watershed moment in Christianity. Here’s how his efforts to spread the faith jumpstarted what is now the world’s largest religion. Saint Paul, a founding ...

Saint Paul is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of the Western world. Famously converted on the road to Damascus, he travelled tens of thousands of miles around the ...

St Paul shares a common feast as apostle with St Peter on June 29. In today’s celebration we recall the unique event which made him so – the apparition on the road to Damascus. It was so significant ...

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