Lop Notes: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

07 September 2025

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Today the Church celebrates the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The assigned readings are Wisdom 9:13-18b; Philemon 9-10, 12-17; and Luke 14:25-33. The Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 90 (Psalm 90:3-6, 12-14, 17).

For one version of the Responsorial Psalm set to music, please visit:

YouTube: Sunday Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90 – In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge

The Gospel reading is as follows:

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, "If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, 'This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.' Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple."