Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh
Week in Ordinary Time
(Galatians 1:13-24; Luke 10:38-42)
LeBron James, the designated king of basketball, is
returning to his hometown. He feels
called back to Cleveland to win a championship for the people among whom he
grew up. To say the least, he is gifted
enough to be a major factor in a victorious.
He might be compared to St. Paul on that fated journey to Damascus which
he mentions in the first reading today.
As Paul describes himself, he was well prepared for the
task to which God was calling him. He knew
the Scriptures as well as anyone and had zeal beyond compare. God, it seems, planned the encounter between
him and God’s Son. Paul is reticent to
say exactly what took beyond that Jesus was revealed to him. In the First Letter to the Corinthians Paul mentioned
that Jesus “appeared” to him but without any elaboration. The event must have been monumental to turn
completely around this rock-hard persecutor of the Church.
Hearing the story again, we stand in awe. Paul not only gave the rest of his life to
preaching the gospel but in the end suffered martyrdom for it. We are more certain that what we believe is
true because of his eloquent testimony.
