O most glorious Saint Paul, from being a fierce persecutor of the Christians, you became an ardent apostle. In order to bring the knowledge of Jesus to the farthest bounds of the world, you suffered imprisonments, scourging, stoning, ship wrecks and persecutions of every kind and finally shed your blood up to the last drop.
Obtain for us the grace to receive from the hands of God as heavenly favours the trials and sufferings of this life, so that they may not make us cold in the service of God, but make us more and more faithful and fervent. Amen