“He’s very charming,” Mary said while she gave me a kiss on the forehead. “Jesus will love playing with him, don’t you think?” “He’ll have so much fun,” answered Joseph. “By the way, you’ll have to think of a name for him. Pick whatever name you wish.” Mary looked at me and thought for a second. Then she said: “His eyes make him look like a faithful dog. We could call him… Hasid. What do you think?”
Hasid is a white dog with a yellow spot on his forehead in the shape of a star. He was chosen among all dogs to be the guardian of the most wonderful family in the world. Through his eyes, we will get to know Joseph, Mary and the Child better and relate closely with them as one more member of the family. We will also become acquainted with Sereno the donkey, Chanticleer the rooster, Bolo the Magis’ dog and Dodger the intellectual dog. This is a tender story of adventures and good humour, appropriate for Christmas and any other time of the year, which will soon become a classic.
The author: Tomas Trigo, born in 1953, in Villanueva de Arosa, Spain, was ordained priest by Pope John Paul II in 1987, in Rome. He teaches Moral Theology in the University of Navarre (Spain).