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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Conversion of St Paul
DESCRIPTION:From a Homily on the Praise of St Paul4\nby St John Chrysostom \nPaul\, more than anyone else\, has shown us what humankind really is\, and in what our nobility consists\, and of what virtue this particular animal is capable. Each day he aimed ever higher; each day he rose up with greater ardor and faced with new eagerness the dangers that threatened him. He summed up his attitude in the words: I forget what is behind me and push on to what lies ahead. When he saw death imminent\, he bade others share his joy: Rejoice and be glad with me! And when danger\, injustice and abuse threatened\, he said: I am content with weakness\, mistreatment and persecution. These he called the weapons of righteousness\, thus telling us that he derived immense profit from them. \nThus\, amid the traps set for him by his enemies\, with exultant heart he turned their every attack into a victory for himself; constantly beaten\, abused and cursed\, he boasted of it as though he were celebrating a triumphal procession and taking trophies home\, and offered thanks to God for it all: Thanks be to God who is always victorious in us! \nThe most important thing of all to him\, however\, was that he knew himself to be loved by Christ. Enjoying this love\, he considered himself happier than anyone else; were he without it\, it would be no satisfaction to be the friend of principalities and powers. He preferred to be thus loved and be the least of all\, or even to be among the damned\, than to be without that love and be among the great and honored. \nTo be separated from that love was\, in his eyes\, the greatest and most extraordinary of torments; the pain of that loss would alone have been hell\, and endless\, unbearable torture. \nSo too\, in being loved by Christ he thought of himself as possessing life\, the world\, the angels\, present and future\, the kingdom\, the promise and countless blessings. Apart from that love nothing saddened or delighted him; for nothing earthly did he regard as bitter or sweet. \nDeath itself and pain and whatever torments might come were but child’s play to him\, provided that thereby he might bear some burden for the sake of Christ. \n4Hom. 2 de laudibus sancti Pauli: PG 50\, 477-480.
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