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The event of the conversion of Saul to Paul is known to us. Saul, an ardent Pharisee, persecutes Christians not out of cruelty, but out of ignorance and blindness.\u00a0Then it is a common case that repeats itself at every age. Great Teacher, Jesus Christ, it is also common for you to tear down those Sauls, in various events you throw them off their saddles and call out with a thousand mouths: \u00abSaul, Mary, George… why are you persecuting me?\u00bb While Saul of Tarsus, thrown from his saddle and blinded by a strange experience, manages to answer the question: \u00abLord, what do you ask?\u00bb\u00a0– today’s Saul starts searching like detectives: Who caused it? Who cared?\u00a0– They act accordingly.\u00a0If they discover a higher “unknown” power behind the scenes, they can turn themselves and their surroundings into a complete storm.\u00a0If they had power, which they don’t have, they would scatter the clouds.\u00a0But let’s be honest and admit to ourselves: God’s love will take care of the blinded Saul’s, and God’s justice for the wicked.\u00a0Let’s not point fingers that Saul is such and such an atheist brother, sister, boss, and neighbor…\u00a0

In meditative silence, let’s confess and answer the questions: Am I not Saul too, we, the baptized souls, the chosen souls, and I, the priest?\u00a0Let’s fervently ask the Holy Spirit for gentle hearing and listening! Parents have been saying loudly for a long time: \u00abSon, daughter, why do you persecute us with such a life?\u00a0We, parents, have not slept for you for a long time… Get up from the earth, mud, and humiliation of sinful society! Cling to Christ, start it differently…” The husband repeats to his wife and vice versa in countless questions: “Why do you persecute me with infidelity?\u00a0Get up and come, we’ll start it differently…\u00bb Friend to friend, neighbor to neighbor, co-worker to co-worker repeats: \u00abWhy are you persecuting me…?\u00bb\u00a0The sister reproaches the sister: \u00abWhy are you persecuting me?\u00a0Why do you harbor that tyrannical way of capriciousness… of resentment… of selfishness\u2026?!”\u00a0

And who are you, XY, to reproach me like this?\u00a0What right do you have to say that?\u00a0If we end with just this question, we will continue to be what we were – Sabers!\u00a0We will continue to persecute our near and far surroundings, and we will intensify the persecution.\u00a0Unfortunately, only the last, and a very small group, also follows Saul of Tarsus with this question: \u00abLord, what do you want me to do?\u00a0\u00bb This issue requires a true conversion, a turning to the Truth, which we mistakenly sought in the persecution of others.\u00a0If we have the strength to ask Christ like this in the depths of our soul, He Himself will answer us: – I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life! (John 14:6).\u00a0– The truth will set you free!\u00a0(John 8:32).\u00a0

Go, show yourself to my representatives;\u00a0you, maiden, youth, to your parents;\u00a0you, priest, to your bishop;\u00a0thou consecrated soul to thy superiors;\u00a0you, Christian, to your confessor!\u00a0Go and they will tell you what to do.\u00a0If we have the strength to honestly question our conscience, to simply and openly ask Christ face to face what we must do to change our lives, the grace of God will complete the work of perfect conversion in us.\u00a0Then: – frivolous maidens and young men will develop into the Roman Priskas, Agnes, Alojz, and the martyr-strong Pavlov Miki and Sebasti\u00e1n; – from frivolous married couples, parents become pillars of society, a guarantee of a healthy future;\u00a0– from the tepid consecrated souls, the continuation of the Carmelite saints, the paraylemonial Margaret’s, the modern Ledochowskis, Demjanovi\u010ds, and the university-educated Edit Steins; – from average priests to new parish priests from Ar’s\u2026\u00a0

Beloved Jesus, I am sure that the greatness of the apostle to the nations began here!\u00a0Here, in this question: \u00abLord, what do you ask me to do?\u00a0\u00bb We are afraid to ask because then we would have to continue in the Pavlovian line. She was required: – To carry the death of Jesus in our bodies so that the life of Jesus would be evident in our bodies. – To remain alive, but still to put ourselves to death for Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal body.\u00a0This is what Paul writes about himself in the Second Letter to the Corinthians.\u00a0It did not break the converted Saul.\u00a0Love for Jesus began to motivate him more powerfully than hatred before.\u00a0Optimistically, he continues in the same letter: – I am not weakening.\u00a0Even as our inner man is destroyed, our inner man is renewed day by day.\u00a0After all, the present temporary and light burden of tribulation will gain us an exceedingly great eternal glory above all (2 Corinthians 4:16-17).\u00a0

We do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ, our Lord;\u00a0however, we consider ourselves your servants (2 Cor 4,5).\u00a0Lord Jesus, there is little or no malice in me.\u00a0But there is a lot of fear in me that keeps me from calling out to Saul: \u00abLord, what do you want me to do? \u00bb Do not look at this weakness.\u00a0Call, scream, stir up my insides: \u00abI am Jesus, whom you have persecuted so far – she persecuted.\u00a0Well, it will be difficult for you to kick against the thorn!\u00bb\u00a0Beloved Jesus, take possession of me!\u00a0I give you freedom against my freedom.\u00a0I give you – if I may be honest – I give you a pleading command: \u00abSeize me!\u00a0Don’t look at the moans and groans!\u00a0One day the scales will fall from my blinded eyes and I will see that in this and that event, humiliated, when you knocked me off the saddle of soaring pride, you stood – Jesus, Friend, Love, Mercy, Truth!\u00bb\u00a0

The decision<\/b>\u00bb I will ask the Blessed Christ where to start my own conversion.\u00a0By which faults do I persecute my fellow man?\u00a0I’ll start from there<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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