Zach’s Journey

About the Book

This is the story of a group of four teenagers who call themselves the gang. They live in a fishing village called Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in the year AD 27. One day, a stranger from Nazareth comes to their town. When he invites some fishermen, including four of their own brothers, to join him in a project of “fishing for people” and building up a “kingdom,” the gang try to find out as much as they can about the stranger. Over the next three years, they journey with, listen to, and speak with this man. With very little experience of life outside their town, they have much to learn!

About the Author

Cormac O’Brolchain, a Spiritan priest, spent seventeen years on the missions: three years in the West Indies and fourteen years in Kenya, East Africa. When he returned to Ireland he took up the post of Principal of Blackrock College from 1987 - 2000. Then from 2006 - 2011 he was President of Blackrock College. Fr Cormac was awarded an M.Litt. (T.C.D.) for his research on the experimental use of music, para-liturgies and drama in Religious Education and a Ph.D. (D.C.U.) for his research into the importance of experiential religious education in the development of adolescent boys. He is now Spiritual Director at Blackrock College.