Feast Day
The Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle is a feast celebrated during the liturgical year on January 25, recounting the conversion. This feast is celebrated in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches. This feast is at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, an international Christian ecumenical observance that began in 1908, which is an octave (an eight-day observance) spanning from January 18 (observed in Anglican and Lutheran tradition as the Confession of Peter) to January 25.
The collect is:
- O God, who taught the whole world
- through the preaching of the blessed Apostle Paul,
- draw us, we pray, nearer to you
- through the example of him whose conversion we celebrate today,
- and so make us witnesses to your truth in the world.
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