Most of we learn about the lives of Saints Peter and Paul comes from the Acts of the Apostles. However, part of St Paul’s mission was to write to communities that he had set up and to give them advice about how to live as Christian communities. He travelled over 16 000 km around the world as he knew it. He travelled on foot, by boat and by donkey. He was beaten, abused and shipwrecked and eventually like St Peter, he was executed. His letters were to many different groups of people e.g. the Corinthians, Thessalonians, Ephesians, Philippians, Romans, Galatians etc. Each letter was addressed to the specific needs of that community. St Paul’s letters were really the first Christian writings, as they were written before the Gospels. Although they were written to meet the needs of different communities, they still have meaning for us today.