Place an open bible, a lighted candle, and a vase with water at the center of your group. Give each person a flower. Welcome one another without speaking and make a bouquet of flowers.
LEADER: Our brother James asks us in Sunday’s second reading to suppose that a richly-dressed man with gold jewelry on his hands and around his neck comes into our group and at the same time a poor person in shabby clothes walks in—where should we seat them among us?
ALL: Who is poor and who is rich in God’s eyes?
LEADER: Who sees signs of God among us? Who hears God’s word and acts upon it?
ALL: Let it be us. Open our ears to hear and our eyes to see. Loose our tongues to nourish one another with our words.