The Great Story
The story of salvation and the life of Jesus, and the story of the Church, told in plain words and with the exact verse.
- Zacchaeus, the man who climbed a tree
- The Annunciation
- Mary visits Elizabeth
- The birth of Jesus
- The Magi from the East
- The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
- Jesus, at twelve, in the Temple
- The Baptism of Jesus
- The temptations in the desert
- The wedding at Cana
- Jesus calls the first disciples
- The Samaritan woman
- The multiplication of the loaves
- Jesus walks on the water
- The Transfiguration
- Martha and Mary
- Jesus raises Lazarus
- The entry into Jerusalem
- The Last Supper
- Gethsemane
- The death of Jesus on the cross
- The Resurrection
- The disciples on the road to Emmaus
- Thomas: “My Lord and my God”
- The Ascension
- Pentecost
- Peter speaks, and three thousand are baptized
- The first community
- Peter and John heal a man at the Temple gate
- Peter and John before the council
- The seven who serve at table
- Stephen, the first martyr
- Philip and the Ethiopian
- The conversion of Saul
- Peter and Cornelius
- Peter freed from prison
- Barnabas and Saul are sent out
- The Council of Jerusalem
- Lydia, the first in Europe
- Paul and Silas sing in prison
- Paul in Athens
- Paul in Ephesus
- The shipwreck
- Paul arrives in Rome
- The hymn to love: Paul writes to the Corinthians
- The creation
- The Garden of Eden
- The fall
- Cain and Abel
- Noah and the ark
- The Tower of Babel
- God calls Abraham
- Three visitors at Mamre
- Abraham and Isaac on the mountain
- Rebekah at the well
- Jacob and Esau
- Jacob’s ladder
- Joseph, sold by his brothers
- Joseph in Egypt
- Joseph forgives his brothers
- Moses, saved from the water
- The burning bush
- The plagues and the Passover
- The crossing of the Red Sea
- The manna in the desert
- The Ten Commandments
- The golden calf
- The bronze serpent
- Moses sees the promised land
- Rahab and the spies
- The walls of Jericho
- Deborah, the judge
- Gideon and his three hundred
- Samson
- Ruth and Naomi
- Hannah asks for a son
- Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening
- Saul, the first king
- Samuel anoints David
- David and Goliath
- David and Jonathan, friends
- David spares Saul
- David dances before the ark
- The prophet Nathan and David
- Solomon asks for wisdom
- The Temple in Jerusalem
- The queen of Sheba
- Elijah and the widow of Zarephath
- Elijah on Mount Carmel
- God in the gentle breeze
- Elijah is taken up to heaven
- Naaman bathes in the Jordan
- Here I am, send me
- Jonah and Nineveh
- Jeremiah and the potter
- Three young men in the furnace
- Daniel in the lions’ den
- The dry bones
- The return to Jerusalem
- Nehemiah rebuilds the wall
- Queen Esther
- Tobiah and the angel
- Judith
- The Maccabees and the light of the Temple
- The martyrs: Perpetua and Felicity
- The Church set free
- The Nicene Creed
- Saint Augustine: take up and read
- Saint Benedict: pray and work
- Saint Francis of Assisi
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego
- The Council of Trent
- Saint Francis Xavier, missionary
- Saint Teresa of Jesus
- Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus: the little way
- The Second Vatican Council
- Saint Teresa of Calcutta
- Saint John Paul II
- Pope Leo XIV