FEAST OF THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL, APOSTLE || Daily TV Mass, Saturday 25th Jan, 2025

Our Lady of Africa Mbuya Parish Catholic Mass Today - Reading I: Acts 22:3-16 Or Acts 9:1-22 - Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 117:1bc, 2- Gospel: Mark 16:15-18 - Paul was born a Jew in the Roman city of Tarsus, in modern-day Turkey. On the eighth day, he was circumcised and received the Hebrew name Saul. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus. Before his conversion, Paul was known as Saul and was "a Pharisee of Pharisees", who "intensely persecuted" the followers of Jesus. Paul describes his life before conversion in his Epistle to the Galatians: