Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show today. We're going to be talking about St. Paul and some really awesome

facts about him. Yeah, we're going to look at the Apostle to the Gentiles, learn about his travels, learn about the things that he endured in his mission for Christ and so much more.

There is possibly no greater evangelist next to St. Paul with the exception of the Blessed Mother, so I'm very excited about hearing the life of such a great apostle of Jesus.

All right, guys, let's jump right in. This is a really great topic. I love St. Paul. He wrote pretty much half of the Bible. So I'm like, you know, this is going to be something we're going to really.

Yeah, St. Paul wrote half of the Bible and probably didn't use a single comma. There was no punctuation. I remember reading a passage out of one of his letters. And I'm like, that's the longest sentence I've ever read in my life, especially as a lector when you're up there at the

Ambo and you're reading St. Paul. It's like, you've got to take a deep breath and start, you know, going through all of his lines. I mean, it's true. It's like these run on sentences. That was awesome. Oh, they're incredible. Yeah, you have to like reread them and look at them. It's like, okay, what is he saying and what's being articulated here? It's fascinating. You know, like one of the interesting things is that a lot of biblical scholars will say that parts of that were meant to be sung. And that Paul was almost including songs.

Including song lyrics because you'll see that, you know, in the book of Acts when Paul's in prison that they're singing in prison. And it's not uncommon for songs to be in the Bible. And a lot of these were meant to almost be sung as like, almost like a, like a bar or a troubadour, right? Or that those, those lyrics, you know, ostensibly to a song would help them to remember and give them meter in context without the use of any sort of punctuation.

He was Jewish and a lot of the Jewish religion was based on songs. Absolutely.

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So talking about St. Paul, you know, one of the most impressive places I have ever been was the place of his martyrdom.

But even more interesting is the fact that yes, he gave his life for Christ and was beheaded.

But he also always scripture, you know, people were laying their cloaks at his feet for being a part of persecuting Christians even to the point of death, even relationship to Stephen.

Absolutely. Yeah, Paul did not start out as Paul. He was not on team Jesus, you know, he was, he was there.

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