“Your understanding is very shallow. When James wrote his letter it was the first New Testament writing. The Gospels had not even been written yet.”
I think you are confused friend...James is part of the Gospels they had not been combined with other books to make the New Testament (along with the Old Testament) until the late 4th century when the Catholic Church put the true bible together with divine help. If you disagree with this, then you cannot be able to believe that the bible is divinely inspired. It doesn’t work...
As stated, you knowledge is very shallow. James wrote his letter while Jerusalem Christians and Damascus Christians were under persecution from Saul of Tarsus. He wrote to fellow Christians on how to make their ‘dead faith’ active. As a Catholic, you have been manipulated to not learn any things beyond what the ORG approves for your consumption. Paganizations like the notion your priests can hocus pocus bread into the flesh of Jesus are hallmarks of a very well designed cult, not Christianity, or elevating the Mother of Jesus to demigoddess status as a ‘co-redemtrix’.