Inspirational Friday: 4/15!

Today, I went to daily mass, and the reading was on Paul's conversion. The priest said in his homily that St. Paul did not hide his past mistakes from the world, instead he used those past mistakes as a way to bring more people closer to God because of his conversion. Our past mistakes shouldn't define us, instead they should help us and others get closer to God through our witness to conversion. 

Go forth and set the World on Fire! -St. Ignatius of Loyola 

“Saul, my brother, the Lord has sent me,

Jesus who appeared to you on the way by which you came,

that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” -Acts of the Apostles 9: 17

Prayer to Saint Paul: 

O glorious St. Paul, who from a persecutor of Christianity, didst become a most ardent Apostle of zeal; and who to make known the Savior Jesus Christ unto the ends of the world didst suffer with joy imprisonment, scourgings, stonings, shipwrecks and persecutions of every kind, and in the end didst shed thy blood to the last drop, obtain for us the grace to receive, as favors of the Divine mercy, infirmities, tribulations, and misfortunes of the present life, so that the vicissitudes of this our exile will not render us cold in the service of God, but will render us always more faithful and more fervent.

V. Pray for us, Saint Paul the Apostle,

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.

Let us pray

O God, Who hast taught the multitude of the Gentiles by the preaching of blessed Paul the Apostle: grant unto us, we beseech Thee, that we who keep his memory sacred, may feel the might of his intercession before Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Amen.

Ta, Ta for Now!