 Note the prevalence in this prayer of “cognitive” metaphors in the description (prescription) of the moral emotion of compassion: ‘see,’ ‘recognize,’ ‘appreciate.’ In compassion the primary focus is on the sufferer — someone who is in trouble and in need of help. But as Mother Teresa expresses the emotion in this prayer, it is very much a religious emotion because of the way in which the sufferer is seen. She sees Christ in the sufferer, and in doing so takes herself to be seeing something true about the sufferer, a truth that risks being obscured by the outward repulsiveness, both sensory and behavioral, of many of those to whom she ministered.