To mock and belittle the poor, homeless and imprisoned is to mock and belittle Christ. When we care for the disabled and the poor, we are caring for Christ.
"We have these hopes and these beliefs, but there are times in our life when God seems really far away. There are times when we're like Moses: "God, reveal Yourself to me. Let me see You, let me encounter You". And the place where that happens is not with some vision that you have at home in your room. The place where that happens is when you go out and do the things God told you to do. You go out and show love for your neighbour, you go and help someone, you go and feed someone. If you experience that love, you're going to encounter God there and God is going to start to seem real to you. When you're going out and experiencing joy and peace, the other fruits of the Spirit, when you're taking part in what God is doing in the world, you meet Him there. 'Cause when I go and love another person, God's already there loving that person. So when I go there and show love to that person, I meet Him there. I run into Him and I encounter Him ... when we need to find God, when we feel the need to see Him, when He feels far away, you don't find Him in a theology textbook and your mental processes, and you don't find Him in a mystical vision that you get by saying the right prayer a thousand times or inducing a weird mental state or taking DMT. You find Him when you go out and love your neighbour, you find him when you go out and show kindness, you find him when you go and stand up for justice. That's where you find Him - in action.
Fr. Stephen DeYoung, The Whole Counsel of God podcast, "Exodus 33"
