All Saints Day, 1st Reading (Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14)

2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of

The Start of the Letter of James (James 1:1)

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. The first verse of this letter identifies its author as James, servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Note that he does not call himself an apostle or give any other information about himself. He may, indeed,