When the headlines speak of evacuation and hunger, disease and displacement, we are confronted with the persistent suffering of the most vulnerable—those without resources to flee wildfires, without access to nutritious food, without adequate systems of care when illness spreads. The weight of such news invites us not to despair or turn away, but to consider what it means to be anointed, as the Gospel proclaims, with a particular calling toward those broken by circumstance and bound by poverty. This is not a call to solve everything or judge anyone, but to ask ourselves: what does it look like to participate in healing and liberation where we stand, in whatever small way our hands and hearts can reach?