How remarkable is St. Paul really!
Here we have a Proud Jew! Dedicated to one god, and towards any idea of paganism, he would have struck it down with gross detest... and He did, killing and imprisoning many Christians
YET! He had a remarkable conversion on the road to Demascus....
A miracle as remarkable of Constantine, and maybe even more remarkable.
Apart from Paul's conversion, we have the story of Pentecost.... We have these two remarkable stories to fascinate us just as the resurrection does
Those who knew and saw Jesus risen, where still afraid of their fates....
Only when they saw the Holy Spirit did they take their experiences and transform them into something different.... Something magnificent in history...
Quite astonishing that seeing Jesus rise wasn't enough for these apostles, friends of Jesus....
Yet..... We have the Shroud, miracles of the Eucharist, Miracles at Fatima and Lourdes, small and resounding miracles happening all throughout history..... Yet still, the world has yet to be completely converted... Speaks to the lack of human devotion and commitment to things beyond this world...
We are engrained and rooted into our world so much, we shrug at the thought that these things have happened.....
Adam & Eve knew God, and yet did something against His will, they were too aware of themselves ... as we are.... It is the grand image of the human 'rebelious' nature...
Yet, When these men and women met on Pentecost, they then made a remarkable transformation even walking and seeing a risen Lord couldn't give them....
The Holy Spirit must have given them such grace..... that they were newly confirmed in what they experienced and their stories are written in the Glory of the Church....
St. Paul gives us a great real life story of a man who was against the resurrection, yet transformed
Pentecost shows us a great real life story of how the resurrection pitted the Christians against the world, and despite their fears, they were transformed...
Aren't we all transformed in our own small, unique, glorious personal ways?
What have we been set against? And what transforms us?
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