Saturday 25 January

The Conversion of St Paul (F)

Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Psalm 117; Mark 16:15-18

Tell the whole of creation

Go out to the whole world and proclaim the Good News to all creation. Paul went to great efforts to preach the word to people in many parts of the known world. He held that the whole of creation is groaning to be set free (Rom 8). No creature is beyond hearing the good news. Paul had been a persecutor. When I bully or spread unkind gossip about another, in a sense I persecute Jesus. When I am apathetic in caring for the environment, I fail as a disciple of Jesus. Remember, we are baptised and sent...