Friday 25 January

the Conversion of St Paul

Acts 22: 3-16 or Acts 9: 1-22; Ps 117: 1bc.2;
Mark 16: 15-18

What am I to do, Lord?

Paul’s teaching about the Body of Christ – that those who are baptised are parts of Christ’s Body – originated in our Lord’s question to him, ‘why are you persecuting me?’ We are the Body of Christ, and what we are to do is proclaim the Good News, to be the Good News of God’s love to those we meet, wherever we are and whatever we are doing