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SUMMARY:Morning Prayer and Holy Rosary for the feast of the Conversion of 
 St Paul
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DESCRIPTION:Come and join us on Wednesday morning 25 January in person or 
 on the livestream to celebrate the Conversion of St Paul.  After getting l
 etters from the hierarchy to arrest Christians in Damascus\, and making mu
 rderous threats against them\, Saul/Paul is suddenly struck down by a ligh
 t from heaven which blinds him\, and Jesus' asks Paul why he is persecutin
 g him.  In Damascus Ananias is told to go and visit Paul - he is horrified
  because of Paul's reputation for encouraging the stoning to death of loca
 l Christians and standing by holding the cloaks of those carrying out the 
 death sentence (including that of Stephen\, deacon and first martyr of the
  Christian church).  But Jesus tells Ananias that Paul is his chosen instr
 ument\, despite appearances to the contrary.   Paul is hugely important as
  the disciple who takes the Christian message outside Judea to the Gentile
 s\, and thus whilst never forgetting his Jewish education and origins\, se
 ts the Church on its universal path.  As Jesus tells Ananias\, Paul will s
 uffer for his faith\, and is eventually executed by the sword (he has that
  choice as a Roman citizen) in Rome around 65 AD during the persecution of
  Nero.
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