“What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands…we proclaim now to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us.” This is the opening of St. John’s first epistle. The apostle stresses that faith in Jesus is not a theory, something we read about — not even something you read about in the Bible. Rather, faith is concrete, is real, is grounded in human experience. One of the reasons I love St. James is that we put that understanding of faith into practice. We make real the love that God has showered upon us by loving our neighbor, particularly the “least of our brothers and sisters.” You can hear it, see it, touch it.
