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Daily Meditations on St Paul

Written by the Augustinian Bishop Michael Campbell, this is a handy pocket-sized book of ‘reflections, meditations and prayers’ intended ‘to lead the believer into a deeper understanding and appreciation of this truly remarkable apostle’ - to spend ‘a month with St Paul’ as the author puts it.
The book is divided into 31 days, each comprising a short quotation from scripture (eg. Day 21. ‘The Son of God whom we preached among you, Jesus Christ: He is the ‘yes’ to all God’s promises.’ 2 Corinthians 1:19-20) followed by a thought, reflection or meditation (usually only two or three paragraphs) and a brief prayer.

In the first day’s reflection, the Conversion of St Paul, Bishop Campbell observes that ‘Paul had come to realise that Christ was alive and reigning in glory with God the Father. He further understood that to do violence to the followers of Christ was to perpetrate violence on Christ himself’. ‘This reflects Christ’s own teaching in the gospel, when he declares that whatever is done to one his brothers and sisters is in fact done to him (Matthew 25:31-46)’.

How relevant to the modern world is that! But then this is a book for the modern world, an insightful and challenging book for busy people, and a book well worth spending a few minutes with each day.

Brian Dowd

This book is available from www.stpauls.org.uk priced £6.99

2 Corinthians 1:19-20
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19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us, by me, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not, It is and It is not, but, It is, was in him.
20For all the promises of God are in him, It is; therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.
Matthew 25:31-46
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31And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.
32And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats:
33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.
34Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in:
36Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.
37Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee?
39Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee?
40And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
41Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
42For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink.
43I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.
44Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee?
45Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.
46And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

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