Year of St. Paul

Getting Started

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Getting Started – Ideas for Celebrating in your Parish

Order devotional booklet - Praying with Saint Paul: Daily Reflections on the Letters of the Apostle Paul. Fr. Peter John Cameron, Ed. Yonkers, NY: MAGNIFICAT USA, 2008. $9.95 Individual price per copy. (Bulk pricing available for parishes). Telephone 1-970-416-6670.
Get Prayer Cards (3 x 6): Select from six design images (image on front, prayer on back) in packs of 50 by design for $25.00. Available from Pauline Books and Media: http://www.pauline.org/store/yearofstpaul.html
The Daughters of St. Paul Book & Media Center: http://www.daughtersofstpaul.com/bookcenters/charleston/index.html
Suggest the book Paul: Least of the Apostles. Alain Decaux. The story of the Most Unlikely Witness to Christ. Available from Pauline Books and Media: http://www.pauline.org/store/yearofstpaul.html
Understanding St. Paul. James Philipps. Jump Starts for Catechists series. New London, CT: Twenty-Third Publications. Phone: 800-321-0411 http://www.twentythirdpublications.com
Invoke the intercession of St. Paul at parish and school meetings. For example, use an available prayer or end your customary prayer with the phrase “St. Paul, the Apostle, pray for us.”
Explore the Official Vatican Website for the Year of St. Paul: http://www.annopaolino.org/interno.asp?id=4&lang=eng
Explore the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls: http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_paolo/index_en.html
Music composed in honor of the St. Paul for liturgical use– http://www.abbaziasanpaolo.net/inno.htm
Study the Acts of the Apostles and the Letters of St. Paul
Highlight key passages in St. Paul’s letters for preaching retreats or conferences
Study the Church’s teaching on Revelation (Vatican II, Dei Verbum) and the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s document on “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church”
Learn about and engage in lectio divina
Participate in Eucharistic Adoration
Read Pope Benedicts XVI’s books: Jesus of Nazareth, or The Apostles, or Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church
Sponsor an Ecumenical event
Learn about the churches and places of Paul’s missionary voyages
Pray to the Holy Spirit for conversion
Highlight art and music based upon the life and writing of St. Paul (The St. Paul Oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn; Paintings by Rembrandt, etc.)
Engage in or highlight ministry to those in prison
Engage in letter writing to friends and family members, particularly those away from the Church
Create a Prayer Service for the opening and closing of the Year.
Study relevant sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (art One: sections 26-184, pp. 13-50) and the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Questions 1-32, pp. 5-12) on the Church’s teaching of biblical interpretation and revelation
Go on pilgrimage to Rome to visit the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.