For today's Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, I share with you a quote from a homily on St. Paul by St. John Chrysostom, an Archbishop of Constantinople who lived in the fourth century:
"The most important thing of all to him, however, was that he knew himself to be loved by Christ. Enjoying this love, he considered himself happier than anyone else; were he without it, it would be no satisfaction to be the friend of principalities and powers. He preferred to be thus loved and be the least of all, or even to be among the damned, than to be without that love and be among the great and honored. To be separated from that love was, in his eyes, the greatest and most extraordinary of torments; the pain of that loss would alone have been hell, and endless, unbearable torture."May the Lord Jesus Christ open the eyes of our hearts to see his unfathomable love for us, for until we see it, we will always have something missing in our lives.
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