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His followers said to Jesus:

We know that you will leave us.

Who will lead us then?

Jesus answered:

Wherever you are,

turn to James the Just,

for whose sake heaven

and earth came into being.

Meditation

In the Book of James we read,

What profit is it, my sisters and brothers, when we say we have faith but we have no works? Can faith save us?

If a sister or brother is naked and destitute of daily food, and if one of you says to that person, “Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled,” yet you do not give that person those things that a body needs, what profit is your faith?

Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead by itself. Yes, someone might say, “You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

You believe that there is one God; in that, you do well; but the demons also believe this, and tremble. But will you understand, oh hollow person, that faith without works is dead?

Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he had offered his son Isaac upon the altar? See how faith created his works and by works his faith was made complete?

This is how the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.”

Abraham was called the friend of God. So, you see how works justify a person, not faith alone.

Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.