January 17, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.

PREPARING WITH PAUL

Webinar on St. Paul’s conversion offered on Jan. 25

The Office of Discipleship Formation invites members of the Albany Diocese to a webinar presentation, led by Father Richard Fragomeni, Ph.D., titled “The Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul: Christ’s Call to Paul and Us.” (Unsplash photo)

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Get ready for Lent with St. Paul!

The virtual reflection will be offered on St. Paul’s feast day, Thursday, Jan. 25, from 3-4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Father Fragomeni, a priest of the Albany Diocese, will share reflections both on the feast of Paul’s conversion and the 2024 Catechetical theme, “Come to me all you who labor and are burdened”

Father Fragomeni called the webinar “a wonderful pre-Lent opportunity.”

“The invitation to Christ, ‘Come to me all you who labor …’ is an invitation for the Christian to come to the place that St. Paul ended up, namely the place of transformation and ongoing conversion,” he told The Evangelist. “And certainly, this feast falls smack dab in the middle between Christmas, or the end of the Christmas season, and the first day of Lent. So you have the conversion of Paul, and the invitation to come to the Lord, so we come with ready hearts.

“I certainly see this as a pre-Lenten talk because it’s an invitation to the conversion journey that Catholics have, along with those who are preparing for baptism at the Easter Vigil,” he said.

Since 1990, Father Fragomeni has taught at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where he is professor of liturgy and preaching, and chairman of the Department of Word and Worship. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago.

A hope of the webinar, Father Fragomeni added, will be for attendees to learn and “re-think what it means to be a Christian disciple.”

To register for the webinar, call the Office of Discipleship Formation at (518) 453-6670.