This morning's Gospel contains the stories of the Syrophoenician woman who asks for her child to be healed ...

"I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass....

'Sheep without a shepherd' is the text from Sun day's gospel.

Our Gospel reading this weekend is a story inside a story inside a story. The passage opens, “when Herod heard of it…”