For Christina Mines, director of evangelization and catechesis for the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario, the moment that moved her most at her children’s baptisms wasn’t where most might expect: the pouring of water, the anointing with sacred oils, the lighting of a candle. What stayed with her most, she said, was the question asked at the very start of the baptismal rite: “What do you ask of God’s Church for your child?”This is the moment where we get to present our children to the Church as God’s own beloved child—just like Christ was at his baptism: ‘This is my child, with whom I am very well pleased.’ And it is the responsibility of the Church, in that moment, to embrace and welcome and delight in that child in the same way. That question, quietly planted at the start of the rite, can be the seed the homily helps take root and flourish in the hearts of the faithful. Ricardo shares how Christina’s experience connects to the Gospel often proclaimed at baptisms. “Sometimes I walk up to the child and say, ‘This is my daughter, the beloved, in whom I am well pleased,’” he says, echoing the words spoken from above when John baptizes Jesus in the Jordan.