The Boyhood of Jesus

Sounds of Joseph working in his workshop in Nazareth drift into the silence of the dining room where Mary is sewing some strips of wool She has woven Herself. Jesus, His little blond head like a blaze of light, is playing under the trees with His cousins James and Judas, who are about His own age. 'Let us play at the Exodus from Egypt. Jesus will be Moses, I will be Aaron, and you... Mary. ' James proposes. 'But I am a boy! ' protests Judas. 'It does not matter. It's just the same. You are ...