Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - The Definitive Ark of The Covenant

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 12.21.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

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Luke 1:39-45

Friends, today’s Gospel tells the marvelous story of the Visitation.
At the Annunciation,
the angel had told Mary that the child to be conceived in her
would be the new David.
With that magnificent prophecy still ringing in her ears,
Mary set out to visit her cousin Elizabeth,
who was married to Zechariah, a temple priest.

No first-century Jew would have missed the significance
of their residence being “in the hill country of Judah.”
That was precisely where David found the ark,
the bearer of God’s presence.
To that same hill country now comes Mary,
the definitive and final Ark of the Covenant.

Elizabeth is the first to proclaim the fullness of the Gospel:
“How does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”—
the Lord, which is to say, the God of Israel.
Mary brings God into the world,
thus making it, at least in principle, a temple.

And then Elizabeth announces that at the sound of Mary’s greeting,
“the infant in my womb leaped for joy.”
This is the unborn John the Baptist doing his version
of David’s dance before the ark of the covenant,
his great act of worship of the King.

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+++Mary set out in those days
and traveled to the hill country in haste
to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting,
the infant leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said,
"Most blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,
the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
that what was spoken to you by the Lord
would be fulfilled."+++

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[ealgeone]

Yet the writers of the Bible never refer to her as the Ark of the Covenant.

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Yet the writers of the Bible never
refer to her as the Ark of the Covenant.

NO ONE has ever said they did. Strawman
And if they did, they would have referred to The Blessed Virgin
as the Ark of the NEW Covenant;
Clearly delineating her Role from the Old T Covenant.

Now the writers of the Bible never
refer to Mary as having given Birth to any other child
other than Jesus.
But that doesn't stop you now, does it?

There's a word for that...

[ealgeone]

NO ONE has ever said they did.

Except Roman Catholic writers push the narrative.

Now the writers of the Bible never refer to Mary as having given Birth to any other child other than Jesus. But that doesn't stop you now, does it?

The Bible doesn't record her eating many meals either does it....

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The Bible doesn't record her eating many meals either does it....

Other than an Assumption of the Cana Wedding meal, no you're right.

The Bible doesn't record the Blessed Virgin ever dying a human death, either.

You want to keep digging?

[ealgeone]

Bro…just stop. You’re bordering on desperation.

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idolatry of himself, not a fetish, but unrepentant sin.

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