Gabriel was half asleep during the night, thinking about today’s reading:

And Jesus said to them: Follow me and I will make you into fishers of men.

(Mark 1:14-20)

He saw in his minds eye himself now walking along a river at home. He saw himself fishing as a boy and a young man and a friend of his, Mark, was fishing with him.

And Mark’s thoughts seemed to penetrate into his own.

‘If we follow him we can become fishers of men.’ And the call strangely seemed insistent. It kept coming back to him – try as he could to avoid it.