We hear one of the most dramatic conversions in our reading
from Acts this morning. Saul, “still breathing murderous threats
against the disciples of the Lord” sought permission to
arrest and persecute Christians.
On his way to Damascus, Saul was knocked down and heard a voice from the
sky saying, “Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute me?” What follows is
the 180 conversion of Saul’s life from a foremost persecutor of Christians to
the foremost evangelist for Christ.
We
might look at our own lives and think, “My faith story is lame compared to
this!” Yet we must remember that
God works in both Paul’s and Peter’s.
The former in more dramatic conversions and the latter among us who know
Jesus and continue to seek conversions of depth.
The
point isn’t so much how we came to the Lord, but that we came to the Lord.
We have been blessed with the gift of Baptism which Paul experienced in
Acts. We are blessed to receive
the Body and Blood of Jesus in the Eucharist.
There
are Paul’s and Peter’s in our faith community, but the point is that our
stories connect to the story of the
Eucharist which we celebrate momentarily.
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