Conversion of St Paul, Apostle: Tuesday 25th January, 2022 January 25, 2022
Reflection on the WORD
Good News – Proclaim: In today’s Gospel, Jesus commissioned His Eleven Apostles to proclaim the Good News of Salvation to all peoples. Ponder on, “The most effective way of ‘proclaiming the Good News is to be Christ-like in the way we live and relate to others, especially our ‘enemies’, and the marginalised of society.”
Mark 16:15-18
Jesus showed himself to the Eleven and said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned.
‘These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’
Today's Pointers on God's Word
As you read the passage what words, phases or meanings caught your attention?
- •The dramatic conversion of St Paul is a reminder to us that with God no one is beyond conversion and that God can choose the most unlikely person to be His instruments of His Good News of Salvation.
- •When Paul was persecuting the Christians he believed strongly that he was living the truth. Thus, God was able to act through St Paul because he had a passion to live and preach the Truth of God.
- •Regardless of the division amongst Christian denominations, let us continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will use different instruments to build a more fully united and effective witness of Christ as our Saviour and Lord.