February 16 - St. Onesimus

 

St. Onesimus lived in the first century. He was a slave who robbed his master and then escaped. But in Rome he met St. Paul and converted to Christianity. He then returned to his master, Philemon, who was also a Christian, not as a slave but as a brother.

Are there people whom you consider to be inferior because of their social status, origin or culture? What would you have to change in the way you think?

 

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