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I took this photo late in November, when I was
spending a few days of vacation in the nation’s capital. This particular shot
is from Our Lady’s Chapel in the Cathedral of St. Matthew.
Even though it has been some time since I viewed the
set of pictures I took that Friday morning, I identified this picture
instantly. This statue of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta and a homeless man was created by Russian sculptor Leonid Bodnia. In a way, it’s a
counterpart to the other image of mercy in this corner of the church: a replica
of Michelangelo’s Pieta, sculpted by
Felix W. de Weldon. It also honors the tireless advocate of the dispossessed
who visited the cathedral back in 1974, five years before she was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Peace.
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