COMMENTARY

Epistle: Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)
The conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus. This is the first of three Lukan accounts of Paul's conversion from hostility to support of Christ and the church. It is a key incident in the life of the early church. The risen Christ stops Paul in his tracks and enlists him as an apostle. It was a dramatic and radical change in Paul's life, from a persecutor to a propagator of the church. Christ comes to him as light which blinds him. He does not see that opposition to the church is persecution of Christ. After a three-day fast, Paul is baptized by Ananias, receives the Spirit, and begins to preach Christ as the Son of God.

Epistle: Acts 5:27b-32, 40b-41
See Easter 2

Epistle: Revelation 5:11-14
Every creature in heaven and in earth worships Christ…