The Year of St. Paul - The Call

The Call

Paul explicitly defines himself as “apostle by vocation" (cf. Rom 1:1; 1Cor 1:1) or “apostle by the will of God” (2 Cor 1:1: Eph 1:1; Col 1:1), as if to emphasize that his conversion was not the result of a development of thought or reflection, but the fruit of divine intervention, an unforeseeable, divine grace

Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the general audience 25 October 2006