Today you are celebrating me!
Well no, you are not. You are celebrating Jesus Christ, and how he “captured me” even though I was a persecutor of Christians.
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Everything is permissible for me?
Because Christ makes us “free”, some had got the idea that they could do absolutely anything – “Everything is permissible for me”. I am afraid not!
God’s plan for us
God has had an eternal plan for us, which has been wonderfully revealed in my own lifetime, and it is not just for one, chosen people: it is for all!
Christ is everything
Happy am I, and happy are you, who have found Christ. As you celebrate his birth, may you sing and dance for joy!
God has called you and he will not fail you
I must say I always had a soft spot for the converts in Thessaloniki, who were mostly working-class non-Jews. They had to face persecution there, just as I had to, and there were even to be martyrs.
The Day of the Lord
The reading today speaks of the Day of the Lord, which will come one day, and describes it in graphic terms
In my beginning is my end
You are celebrating the beginning of Advent (in my time we had no seasons of the Church’s year); you are at the first day of the year.
Are we going to rise from the dead?
I received word that the poor believers in Corinth were being upset by some whose opinion on this was: “no”.
Go and spread the word
At one time in my life I famously had letters of authorisation for what I was doing. This was when I was a persecutor of Christians, and was going to Damascus to round Christians up and bring them to Jerusalem for punishment.
Take a lesson from the architect
In my life as a Christian I never was to worship in anything so splendid as the Lateran Basilica.