26/04/2023

According to English Law today, Saul could have been prosecuted for murder as although his was a passive role, he had only guarded the clothes of those who killed St Stephen by stoning him to death, there was in effect a "Joint Enterprise" which resulted in the crime. 

St Paul was part of that crime and he emphasised his role in it by becoming a leading light in the first systematic campaign against the heretical sect that was disturbing the religious beliefs he had spent perfecting as a disciple of Gamliel.

The Resurrection is the Father uniquely acting in his created Universe. St Paul is Jesus acting uniquely on the road to Road to Damascus. St Paul's completed life is the  mission whereby The Holy Spirit uniquely spread the  Good News and thus founded the Church on the rock, St Peter.

Each one of us is also uniquely created by Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have to use our beings "to cry out with joy" in unison with all the created Earth. We have to "see" Jesus i.e. know him in the Liturgy and in the Scriptures. We have to be sure that we are "saved" and ready to  enter into the Kingdom of Heaven for no matter how evil our sins, they can be and are forgiven ( remember how both St Peter and St Paul are both grave public sinners but forgiven), when we repent and open our hearts to receive the Mercy that is the Glory, that is the Love of God.

Dear Lord, the depth of my being is known only to you. Help me to stay repentant, open to your mercy and ready to do your Will. May Mary born without sin and Theotokos pray that all we sinners listen to our consciences and not bolster up our selves by finding excuses and false "gods", the many "isms"that plague our lives. May she and all the Saints implore your Mercy to accept the Penance being lived by the Holy Souls in Purgatory. May we all come to know the New Life at the end of time while we avoid Sin in all of our present "nows". Maranatha!