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forward slash road to learn more. Hello, I'm Scott Hahn, and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amos, a podcast from the

St. Paul Center. Today's topic is going to diverge somewhat from our last time.

We were looking at the road to Amas in Luke 24,

and now we're going to be looking at the road to Damascus in Acts chapter 9.

Paul's conversion that he recounts again in Acts 22 and a third time in Acts 26.

Welcome. Rob, it's good to have you. It's good to be back.

We took the road to Amas in a slightly odd direction and talked about conversion, but this is usually the Bible passage most people think of when they think of conversions. We use it just

as a short hand for conversions. I had a road to Damascus experience.

Yeah, you know, I think people crossed the wires here a little bit because when we reflected upon

the road to Amas and recognized the fact that Klopas and his companion were already followers of

Jesus, they would have classified themselves as believers, perhaps disciples, but they were in great need

of conversion, which I think is normative, because conversion for us as Catholics is not something

over and done in the past. It's ongoing. And so we might tend to think of the road to Amas as,

you know, an exception, whereas I think it's really the normal,

nor, it's the normal paradigm of conversion that is ongoing. I think people cross wires

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