The Conversion of St Paul ends the week of prayer for Christian unity.

The Lord is glorious in his saints, Come let us adore him. 

This is the antiphon on the Venite for Saints Days. For each, for all, and they are all so different - both men and women, the simple, the learned, the joyous, the dour, some are gregarious, some shy, some old when they die, like  John, some young like Agnes.  Some die natural deaths, some are martyrs to the faith. And the Lord is glorious in them all, in us all,  precisely because it takes all of us to show forth God’s glory. And even when we come to the end of this vast  and varied procession, the glory of God is still to be revealed.

On another note, I always wonder why the church doesn’t call this The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus since it was he who was knocked off his high horse that fine day while he was going about his appointed rounds of killing Christians.  It was he who was blinded by the light; it was he who heard the Lord speaking to him: “Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me? “ And it was he who had his whole life reoriented in a moment of time to became the amazing St Paul, beloved, misunderstood, misused St Paul who had such an amazing impact on the early church. And for that conversion we give thanks this day.