3rd Week of Easter – Thursday B
In the readings concerning Saint Stephen, the first New Testament follower of Christ to be martyred, we saw that he was one of seven, trust-worthy men, filled with the Holy Spirit, chosen to attend to some issues concerning the early Church in development. In today’s first reading we meet up with Philip the Evangelist, another one of those seven chosen deacons, in a very important and beautiful account which is said to be the birth of the Ethiopian Church.