Who is Our Father

Where is Our Father


A childless old priest, Zachariah,

honored to alone burn incense in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem,

is paralyzed with awe when a radiant messenger greets him saying,

“Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son.”
Zachariah doubts these words promising that his dream will come true

so he is dammed speechless until my cousin John is born.



Elizabeth’s pregnancy, like my mother Mary’s, is traumatic.
Elizabeth hides for five months.
After her son is born, Zachariah lets Elizabeth name him John,
although no one in the family ever had that name.

Zachariah, like my father Joseph, must have wondered who

fathered his son.

No wonder John and I look for a father in the sky.