POPE BENEDICT – FEAST OF CONVERSION OF ST PAUL, APOSTLE
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The feast of the conversion of St. Paul puts us once again in contact with the great Apostle chosen by God to be God’s «witness to all people » (Acts 22:15) Encountering the risen Christ on the road to Damascus was for Saul of Tarsus a decisive moment in his life. He was completely transformed undergoing authentic, spiritual conversion. Through divine intervention, the human persecutor of the Church was blinded and in darkness. He was overcome by a great light which made him in a short time an ardent apostle of God
