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Reclaimed for Christ: Following St. Paul’s roadmap to sainthood

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I remember joining RCIA like it was yesterday. I had grown up culturally Jewish, but at college I began to attack the Christian faith once I recognized what it preached. When I was younger, I associated Christianity with classmates in middle school who would bully me for my family’s Jewish heritage. As a skeptic in college at a public university, I was confronted with intellectual evangelical Protestant Christians whose presentation of the basics of Christianity were winsome. After discovering the truth of the Catholic faith, I knew God was calling me home to the Catholic Church. I could pick no finer model than St. Paul, whom I chose as my confirmation saint. Like St. Paul, I found that God had reclaimed my life.

From persecutor to apostle​


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