The Conversion of St. Paul
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to our daily Rosary Meditation. |
| 0:06.0 | I am praying with two of my favorite women in the world, |
| 0:11.0 | my wife Sandy and my daughter Teresa. |
| 0:14.0 | So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:17.0 | Amen. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:27.1 | Today, we celebrate the feast of the conversion of St. Paul. |
| 0:34.1 | Until he was about 30 years old, Paul, also known as Saul, was a very devout Jew. |
| 0:39.5 | In fact, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles, Paul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord's disciples and stop the spread of Christianity. But suddenly, while |
| 0:46.9 | he was traveling to Damascus, there came a light from heaven. He fell to the ground and then heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, why are you |
| 0:57.3 | persecuting me? Who are you, Lord? he asked. And the voice answered, I am Jesus. And you are |
| 1:05.5 | persecuting me. Get up now and go into the city and you will be told what you have to do. |
| 1:13.7 | Struck blind, Paul was led by the hand to Damascus, |
| 1:17.7 | where a Christian disciple named Ananias laid hands on him and prayed. |
| 1:24.0 | Immediately it was as though scales fell from Saul's eyes and he could see again so he asked for baptism |
| 1:32.0 | and after he spent only a few days with the disciples in damascus he began preaching in the synagogues |
| 1:41.2 | Jesus is the Son of God. |
| 1:53.3 | So realizing Jesus was alive and that he truly was God and the Savior of the world, |
| 1:59.5 | Paul converted to Catholicism and became the greatest missionary in the history of the church. |
| 2:05.6 | He brought Christianity to Turkey, Greece, Italy, and even Spain before his martyrdom in Rome around 65 or 66 AD. |
| 2:11.6 | Once Paul encountered Jesus, everything changed. |
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