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“God has granted life-giving repentance even to the Gentiles.” –Acts 11:18 It might seem that the controversies of the first-century Church could be dry reading to modern eyes. However, the way this particular controversy, told in today’s first reading, was handled meant that the vast majority of nearly everyone who is reading this teaching now has the opportunity to be saved! If the members of the early Church were not listening closely to the Holy Spirit, they could have closed their hearts to the leading of the Holy Spirit, relied on the historical precedent of their forefathers, and decided that...