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The author shows us how the Church, the body of Christ, was built up slowly, one encounter after another. The earliest friends of Jesus were the first to be caught by grace and transformed in their encounter with Jesus. The author invites us to place ourselves in the midst of the Gospel encounters, so that these encounters may come alive for us and strengthen us as we struggle with living and sharing the Gospel today. The graces of the past are still being bestowed on us in the present moment. Like the first followers of Jesus we too can be 'caught by grace'.

Alexander J. Basile is chairperson of the Religious Education Department at Kellenberg Memorial High School, Uniondate, New York