1. 14 During the Year SUNDAY Cycle B
While listening to “Pie Jesu” by Maurice Duruflé, let us get closer to Jesus

2. Right after the miracles, Mark talks to us of the refusals Jesus receives
Synagogue of Nazareth

3. Jesus is surprised of the lack of FAITH of his people
Jesus’ House
Synagogue
Jesus is surprised of the lack of FAITH of his people

4. Mk 6:1-6 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue,

5. Your home town people know you only in purely human way
Mother and son of Nazareth
Your home town people know you only in purely human way
“We no longer cherish Christ according to the flesh” (2 Cor 5:16)

6. 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?

7. Your Wisdom is revealed to those who seek it
Every morning is a new one…

8. 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 offense at him.

9. You have born among the simple The unproductive of a consumer society
Young man of Nazareth
You have born among the simple
The unproductive of a consumer society

10. And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household."

11. The true prophets speak with works
“You are like a lamb led to the slaughter” (Jer 11:19)
Flock of Natzareth

12. And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief.

13. Without the flame of FAITH miracles cannot be seen
“Show me the man in you, and I will show you the God that is in Me” (Theophilus of Antioch)

14. And he went about among the villages teaching.

15. You spread the values of the Gospel because they are significant
Galilee
You spread the values of the Gospel because they are significant
And you, do you live the Gospel?

16. Jesus of Nazareth, help us to dignify our daily work, so that discovering the human values we find the ETERNAL ones