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'To you have I lifted up my eyes.' Sunday Reflections, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

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  Keiko Uemura on her First Communion Day, December 1971 Keiko died 27 April 1972, aged 14 To you have I lifted up my eyes, y ou who dwell in the heavens (Responsorial Psalm). Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel    Mark 6:1-6   (English Standard Version, Anglicised)    Jesus went away from there and came to his home town, and his disciples followed him.   And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?   Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offence at him.   And Jesus said to them,  “A prophet is not...