Since Ruth and I offered to clean the baptismal fount every Friday we got to Queen of Peace around 4ish to do so before the Bible Study. We stopped and talked to Aaron for a while and then went to clean. After cleaning we headed to the modular for the Bible Study (there were more people than I thought there would be). Father Dan did the introduction and explained some of the parallels of the Old Testament and the New Testament (he also did the this in RCIA).
He went over how Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant. "David feared the Lord that day and said, 'How can the ark of teh Lord come to me'?" (2 Samuel 6: 9) this parallels when Mary visits Elizabeth. Elizabeth says, "And how does this happen to me, that the mother of the Lord should come to me?" (Luke 1:43) Just as David leapt for joy before the ark when it was brought into Jerusalem (2 Sam. 6:14-16), so John the Baptist leapt for joy in Elizabeth’s womb when Mary, the ark of the new covenant, came into her presence (Luke 1:44). John’s leap was for precisely the same reason as David’s--not primarily because of the ark itself, but because of what the ark contained, the Word of God.Another parallel may be found in 2 Samuel 6:10-12 where we read that David ordered the ark diverted up into the hill country of Judea to remain with the household of Obededom for three months. This parallels the three-month visit Mary made at Elizabeth’s home in the hill country of Judea (Luke 1:39-45, 56). While the ark remained with Obededom it "blessed his household." This is an Old Testament way of saying the fertility of women, crops, and livestock was increased. Notice that God worked this same miracle for Elizabeth and Zachariah in their old age as a prelude to the greater miracle he would work in Mary. When Father Dan started drawing his pictures I remembered the comment Dale said in RCIA when Fr. Dan drew Mary as the new Ark of the Covenant - "I think I dated her sister once in college". This is similar to what Fr. Dan's picture looked like:
Oh yea here is a picture of Kate, me, & Jessica at the Philly Tuesday night
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