Conversion of Saint Paul

I Am Jesus Whom You Are Persecuting: The Conversion of Saint Paul (Acts 26:9–21)

The grace that reached Paul was not the reward of spiritual searching. It was the interruption of spiritual hostility. That is one reason the Conversion of Saint Paul is such an important feast for the Church. It gives us a picture of grace in unusually vivid form.

The Conversion of Saint Paul: An Anglican Perspective

The grace that found Paul did not merely rescue him from something; it sent him toward something. The man who came to close eyes was commissioned to open them, so that people might turn “from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God.”