Year of St. Paul

Resources on St. Paul

On the feast of St Paul, 2007 Pope benedict announced a Jubilee Year to the Apostle Paul, saying: “Dear brothers and sisters, as in early times, today too Christ needs apostles ready to sacrifice themselves. He needs witnesses and martyrs like St Paul. Paul, a former violent persecutor of Christians, when he fell to the ground dazzled by the divine light on the road to Damascus, did not hesitate to change sides to the Crucified One and followed him without second thoughts. He lived and worked for Christ, for him he suffered and died. How timely his example is today!

“And for this very reason I am pleased to announce officially that we shall be dedicating a special Jubilee Year to the Apostle Paul from 28 June 2008 to 29 June 2009, on the occasion of the bi-millennium of his birth, which historians have placed between the years 7 and 10 A.D.”

~ Pope Benedict XVI, June 28, 2007
First Vespers of the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul

To mark this year we provide some materials on St. Paul. We thank the Office of Adult Religious Education in Cork and Ross for making their materials available to us.

Introducing St. Paul.

Thessalonians.

Galatians.

Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of teachings on St Paul to celebrate the Year of St Paul. You can access them all below.

St Paul (1): Religious and Cultural Environment

St Paul (2): The Life of St Paul before and after Damascus

St Paul (3): St Paul's "Conversion"

St Paul (4): St Paul's Concept of Apostolate

St Paul (5): Paul, the Twelve and the pre-Pauline Church

St Paul (6): The "Council" of Jerusalem and the Incident in Antioch

St Paul (7): The Relationship with the Historical Jesus

St Paul (8): Paul's Ecclesiological Dimension