Friends, “fools rush in where angels fear to tread”—and this week, I am going to go once more into the issue of faith and works, which has been dividing Western Christianity since the Reformation. Our second reading from the Letter of James is a key text on this issue, and its metaphor of healing—together with Paul’s forensic metaphor—orient us to the Catholic view of justification.
Mass Readings
- Reading I – Is 50:5-9a
- Psalm – Ps 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
- Reading II – Jas 2:14-18
- Gospel — Mk 8:27-35