The news carries images of desperate journeys, of people displaced by hunger, violence, and disease, seeking shelter and survival. In such moments, the question Christ posed in Matthew’s Gospel becomes urgent and personal: how do we see the stranger at our border, the sick in our midst, the vulnerable bearing the weight of systems beyond their control? The verse does not ask whether the stranger’s arrival is convenient or orderly, but whether we recognize in their hunger and thirst and displacement the face we are called to serve. To sit with this question—without rush to judgment, without calculation of borders or resources—is to enter into the posture of mercy that the Gospel invites.