Mary, the Ark of the Covenant (Pope Benedict XVI)

  Mary is the Ark of the Covenant because she welcomed Jesus within her; she welcomed within her the living Word, the whole content of God’s will, of God’s truth; she welcomed within her the One who is the new and eternal Covenant, which culminated in the offering of his Body and his Blood:  a body and blood received through Mary.  Therefore, Christian piety rightly turns to Our Lady in the litanies in her honour, invoking her as Foederis Arca, that is, the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of God’s presence, the Ark of the Covenant of love which God desired to establish with the whole of humanity, in Christ, once and for all.

--Pope Benedict XVI,
Homily, August 15, 2011

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