In the Letter of James this week we hear of the importance of showing the same impartiality to others that God shows to us. If God doesn’t make distinctions between rich and poor, neither should we.

My pastor was diagnosed with epilepsy two years ago. Since that time he’s had seizures great and small, sometimes during Mass so that the whole community is aware of his condition.

A handsome man in a brown flannel suit entered church one Sunday morning a few minutes after the start of Mass. He walked up the center aisle and positioned himself in the first pew.

In prayer we call upon God to strengthen us in our following of the way of Jesus.

Show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. The lectionary selections from the Letter of James drive home the point that Christians should, in the words of last Sunday’s reading, “be doers of the word and not hearers only,” and in the words of next Sunday’s, “faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

In religion class an indignant little boy, hands on hips, declares, “I don’t think it’s fair that blind people have better hearing than the rest of us!”

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. —Italian proverb