Acts 4:32-35

As we turn to the Book of Acts during Eastertide, our first reading comes from a few chapters in, Acts 4:32-35.

Read from the beginning of Acts all the way through this week’s lection — Acts 1-4. This will help you understand the context.

These days, everyone who reads Acts 4:32-35 cries, “Socialism!” Is it? Is the Book of Acts about political economy, or something else?

Why do yo think the Church cannot be so united and virtuous today as it was in Acts 4:32-35? What has changed?