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• The event described in today’s reading from Exodus happened just after Israel broke the covenant by making an image of God as the golden calf.
• As the reading opens, God’s renewal of the broken covenant is symbolized by new stone tablets containing the Law.
• Then God stood before Moses and pronounced the Divine name. A name that means not only that God is but also that God is actively present.

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• The second reading concludes Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians.
• It is an exhortation on the virtues of the Christian life: conversion, mutual encouragement, harmony, and peace.
• These virtues live in the Christian community through the gift of God’s presence.

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• Today’s Gospel passage tells us how deep God’s love is.
• The statement about God’s love was inserted into the middle of Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus concerning the new birth that leads to eternal life.
• According to John’s Gospel, belief in Jesus is salvation.