Let’s briefly look at three men caught up in the divine drama: the prophet Isaiah, the apostle Paul, and Peter, the head of the Apostles and the first Pope. In many respects, they were quite different from one another. Isaiah was likely from an upper-class family, was apparently well-educated, and was married to a prophetess. Paul was also highly educated and a prize student of the great rabbi Gamaliel, and before his conversion on the Damascus Road, he was a fervent enemy of the budding Church. Peter was also undoubtedly fervent but did so as a fisherman and blue-collar businessman. Each man was called, in dramatic and personal fashion, to proclaim the Word of God in difficult, harrowing circumstances. The prophet Isaiah has a vision of the throne room of the Lord of hosts. Faced with God’s fascinating and mysterious presence, man discovers his own insignificance. Isaiah sees himself in the light of God’s holiness and recognizes his desperate plight, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips.” Isaiah was told by the seraphim, “Now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.” Paul was also transformed and purified by a heavenly vision while traveling to Damascus, “a light from the sky suddenly flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’ He asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ The reply came, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.’” Whereas Isaiah’s sinful lips were purified by fire, Paul’s blinded eyes were healed by the prayer and hands of Ananias, a disciple of Jesus Christ. Upon witnessing the miracle of the fish, Peter responded to God with the same humility as Isaiah and Paul: “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” Yet Jesus does not ask only Peter and the apostles to be fishers of men; the Lord asks it of every son and daughter.