Sons and Daughters of Encouragement

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Acts is one of my favorite books of the New Testament, because it’s full of action, the early Christians going to and fro, being persecuted, proclaiming the Gospel, helping people, so on and so on.

Today’s first reading from Acts 4 has a lot less action—on the surface. It begins with a general narrative passage in which we are told about the com...