Celebrating the Feastday of the Conversion of St Paul

Yesterday, January 25 was the feastday of the Conversion of St Paul.

Although we spent most of the morning out getting most of our grocery supplies for the week, the afternoon was spent preparing for our private Mass which we have every Monday evening. And though a few days earlier I told myself I was going to make more of an effort in preparing our activities for this feastday, as it turns out, I was not organized enough to allow myself to fulfil it. (Darn!)

So, although I earlier thought the kids and I would decorate a nice "conversion of St Paul"-themed cake, we ended up simply placing a figurine of St Paul and a horse on top of it, symbolic of how St Paul was knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus by the Blinding Light which was the start of his conversion and the turning point of his life.

As a nice highlight to the day, we watched the movie: St Paul the Emissary - which was an excellent tool in teaching the kids about this saint's life as Saul, persecutor of Christians and how he was converted by Christ - through a powerful experience - into St Paul, the greatest missionary in the history of Christianity who gave up everything in order to spread Christ's message to all the world. And to end the day, the kids spent some time colouring-in pictures of St Paul, emphasizing his symbols, the sword and the scroll.

On this day, let our prayer be:

Loving Lord, please convert our hearts and minds, so we can become the people You intended us to be. Blind us with Your Light, Your Love - if it means that we would be able to redirect the rest of our lives into living ONLY for You, as You died ONLY for love of us. Help us to live totally abandoned to Your Divine Will so that, as St Paul said, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ Who lives in me," (Gal 2:20)

Sancte Paulus, ora pro nobis!