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I would like to look more closely at the Damascus event, just as Paul did later in some of his letters.
I confess a hesitation to delve into the mystery of God in another person, even though Paul is a representative figure for all of Christianity. I also freely confess an inability to fully capture the meaning of the texts. May the Lord grant me mercy and help me understand some part of the indescribable light that enveloped Paul and transformed the life of this apostle.
To understand the richness of the divine action in Paul, to understand what he said about his experience that millions of people refer to, we need to reflect on three descriptions of his conversion that are found in the Acts of the Apostles: chapter 9 (in a third person account) and chapters 22 and 26 (in autobiographical form).
The description in chapter 26 has the greatest number of autobiographical details, and it is also…
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