God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
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But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
God dwells whole and undivided in His temple the Church. He is present now and not in the past. We can see and experience His power at work among us. It is through the action of the Holy Spirit that Jesus was born of a virgin mother. Christ keeps His Church spotless and makes her fruitful by the inspiration of the same Spirit. As we have died with Him and have been buried and raised to life with Him, so we bear Him within us, both in body and in spirit, in everything we do. (Sermon of St Leo the Great, Pope)
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