Feast of St James, the apostle who urged in his Epistle that Christians must be “doers and not simply hearers of the word.” He was concerned about the intrusion of class differences in the community of faith and the tendency of some Christians to dismiss the value of works.
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“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?”
“If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has not works is dead.”
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