{"id":2654,"date":"2020-05-01T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T08:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:31:32","slug":"acts-91-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Acts 9:1-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s12\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Read a short reflection on the readings from Friday in the Third Week of Eastertide below.<\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Today we hear about Saul\u2019s conversion on the road <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">to Damascus in his pursuit of the arrest and persecution of Christians.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> The Risen Christ through a dazzling light speaks directly to the soul of Saul and transforms his entire essence and <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">life. Saul is renamed Paul, a sign of his new role and mission as an Apostle of the Gospel. This powerful encounter and experience expanded his mind and interiorly transfixed him to the Risen Lord. St Paul is now sent and dispatched as an ambassador and bearer<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> and servant of the Lord and will give his entire existence in this new and wondrous pursuit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s12\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">St Thomas Aquinas:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">To<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> convert some<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">one,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> go and take them by the hand and guide them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s12\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein):\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u201cThe nation doesn\u2019t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a short reflection on the readings from Friday in the Third Week of Eastertide below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-2654","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-GO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}