Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Today the Church invites you to choose Christ above all things and to live your baptism in quiet, faithful love.

Welcome—you gather with the Church on a Sunday in Ordinary Time, where the Lord calls you to put him first and to walk in the new life he gives. Today’s readings hold together both challenge and promise: to take up the cross, to lose your life for Christ, and to discover that in him you are already alive in a new way. Even the smallest act of love, like a cup of cold water offered in his name, becomes part of that faithful life. As you begin, let your heart rest in the Lord’s mercy and rejoice in the light of his countenance.