Interfaith Days: January 25th, Conversion of St. Paul

Today is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, celebrated in the Anglican, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches. In his own letters, Paul refers to his "call," while Luke (in the Acts of the Apostles, 9:1-19) provides a dramatic narrative of what happened to him.

This day is also the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which started in 1908 as a Roman Catholic octave (eight-day observance, beginning with the Feast of the Confession of Peter, which is January 18th). After the World Council of Churches was established in 1948, the week was observed in many more churches.

(From the 2015 Interfaith Calendar of the Diversity Awareness Partnership of St. Louis---see dapstl.org for more information---and various online sources. My wife Beth purchased this Peter and Paul icon for me in Athens.)