First Reading
Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
34:4Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before: and rising very early he went up into the mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables.
5And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.
6And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
8And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate to the earth, and adoring,
9Said: If I have found grace in your sight: O Lord, I beg you, that you will go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people,) and take away our sins and sin, and have us.