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 Fr. Paul was not named Paul by his parents. Gerard Leonard Hinnebusch was baptized at the age of one week on Feb 3, 1917. On the day he received First Holy Communion he decided to receive the Eucharist daily. In grade school he started praying the rosary daily for the rest of his life. As a freshman in high school, he committed to reading the bible daily for the rest of his life.
Fidelity was never a problem, because Fr. Paul’s life of devotion was an overflow of ever-fresh love enflamed by a living encounter with the crucified and risen indwelling Lord Jesus sustained in daily Eucharist and in the union of habitual contemplative prayer.
 St. Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles also spent himself in sustained zeal which had its source in a living encounter with the crucified and risen Lord Jesus.
Through his daily meditation on the scriptures, Fr. Paul came to find in St. Paul such a kinship that he took Paul as his ministerial name at his ordination to the priesthood June 8, 1944. The key scriptures defining Fr. Paul’s life come from the letters of St Paul: Gal 2:19-20; Rom 8:17.
Indeed, Fr Paul lived the key Pauline doctrines to such depth that one perhaps could say he was a living icon of Pauline truths. Both Pauls desired a life “hidden in Christ”; that I may decrease and Christ may increase, that I may “no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” Fr. Paul’s continual prayer of mutual indwelling was “Jesus you in me and I in you!” Because Fr. Paul LIVED the writings of St Paul, we can learn much from his years of teaching and preaching the living Word handed down to us through St Paul.
Throughout this Year of grace, the Year of St. Paul, we will be adding new teachings and homilies preached by Fr. Paul on the scriptures from St. Paul. This page is not comprehensive, because often instead of preaching on the gospel for Mass, Fr Paul preached on the epistle from St. Paul, or on the relationship. It is impossible for us to list all those homilies. We will prepare and post as many Pauline scripture study teachings and related preaching as we can. May your union with Jesus be enriched.
To volunteer to help, contact us at frpaul@frpaulhinnebusch.org.
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