A small wooden cross with pale cloth draped over its arms stands on dark stones against purple.

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Mother Teresa

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says that people who are dying, disabled, mentally ill, unwanted or unloved are Christ himself in disguise. On this religious view, caring for society's most neglected members is serving God directly. The words urge seeing the sacred in those others overlook or reject.

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