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　June is a month of Paul for me although being every year. The moon of Paul who is why is because the monastic order where I have ever belonged to was doing the celebration in June. When I thought about Paul, I was thinking about an attitude toward passion of Paul and unyielding propagation at the start. I am thinking about depth of the faith and area and thickness now.

 

  "A change of heart of Paul" was the biggest mystery in a life of Paul. Paul was immediate for me since I arrived, and discretion was the person whom you should be modelled after. However, the word "change of heart of Paul" always fell into a heart. It was that a good person from a bad person understood "the reform" to reform itself, and to change well for me.

 

  Paul was the youth that the part before the life was eager in Judaism while I learned as a law bachelor. I am present at martyrdom of Saint Stephano who is the first martyr and hate Christians and persecute much Christ people and I take you and put it in the jail.

 

According to the speech of Paul "you hear how I have ever behaved as a Judaist. I persecuted Church of God thoroughly and was going to destroy it. In addition, I was earnest and was going to be devoted to Judaism than many people of the same age among the countrymen unusually to follow the tradition from ancestors.
Cf. letter one chapter 13 sections - 14 sections to a believer of Galatia

 

  For the Christ person, Paul thinks that it would be dread. It was the relation that was antagonistic for Christ person that Paul went and was the enemy whom you should hate.
  However, in the middle of the persecution of the Christ person, the event happens on the way to a town called damasuko. "By the way, sauro still threatened pupils of the master and was determined to kill it and went to archpriesthood and demanded ways letter addressed of damasuko. I tied it up regardless of man and woman if I found out a person according to this way, and it was to take you to Jerusalem. However, light from the sky lighted it up around him suddenly when sauro went on a trip and approached damasuko. I heard a voice that sauro fell down to the ground and called "do you persecute Saul, Saul, why, me?". There was an answer when I said "who are you a master?". "I am Jesus whom you persecute. You are up, and enter the town. Then, cf. apostle record of a person's sayings and deeds nine chapters one section - six sections that what you should do is informed of
  The event that said this happened. Then Paul achieves a great switch of way of life and the sense of values. I leave all the things which I had and am going to convey Christ with the same passion so far. To put directionality of the totally conventional way of life together in directionality of Christ whom there was in the other side really. It came to be said to be a "change of heart" "turning a heart to Christ for a heart again".

 

  The book which I summarized the note of one Catholic priest who collaborated in commemoration of Mother Teresa birth 100 years called "flame hidden Mother Teresa" in in is published. When she made up her mind to work for a poor person in this book, at time, God decides work of the service to a poor person to listen to a voice spoken to to oneself in a bus, and, as for her, she thinks about the establishment of the new monastic order when she is doing the principal of the private school which there is.

 

  However, the blessing of the deep heart's-ease which she received from God than such an outside circumstances support her how and is to say that joy and deep peace continued until the work begins. However, the deep peace that healed he woman's soul did not come until the life was over after beginning the work. This was written.

 

  The word to say, "God gives it, and God is robbed of it" is a famous word of the Book of Job. We are kept alive in a forthcoming blessing by God and live, what of the person who notices it, and becomes modest, and can live will there be few it with?

 

  Since then Paul speaks that an always valid standard is Christ, and he tells. "Keep this in mind each other. It is seen in Christ Jesus. Christ rather wasted oneself unintentionally to persist in being the person who was equal to God while being social position of God, and it was in my social position and became a thing same as a human being. I appeared with a human figure, and it was obedient up to the death of the cross up to death humbly, too. Therefore, he/she gave you the name that God nominated Christ highly and was superior to every name." (cf. letter two chapters five sections - nine sections to a believer of Phillippi)

 

  The true change of heart might be not only to cure a heart toward God, but also matched oneself's way of life with pains of Christ, the pains of the cross for Paul. I long for way of Paul who lived in a life of Christ such wonderfully of life.

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi