Mother Teresa's Calcutta - Catholic (John 3:16)
A journalist once watched Mother Teresa tend to a dying man covered in maggots and filth. "I wouldn't do that for a million dollars," he said. She replied, "Neither would I." The journalist was confused until she explained: "I do it for the love of Christ. I see Jesus in this man." John 3:16 says God loved "the world"—not an abstraction but actual people. Mother Teresa saw the Incarnation continuing: Christ present in the suffering, encountered in the Eucharist, served in the poor. "God so loved the world" becomes concrete in hands that wash wounds. Where will you encounter Christ today?
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