"Carry the Ark of the Covenant and go before the people" (Jos 3:6) [1].
"It was from here that King David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. For the people of the Old Testament, it was about their walk with God, about God in their midst. And now we come to the New Testament: Jesus is "God with us" and He dwells in Mary, and so in a sense we can see that Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant. And we are all called to be 'arks of the covenant', temples of the living God." [2]
The Ark of the Covenant is much more than a memory of the past (see here).
In Mary, the Word came down, the true Bread of Heaven... The name "Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant" has its foundation in the Gospel according to Saint Luke, which we must explain (see here).
As the angel Gabriel had foretold to the prophet Daniel, the Messiah was slaughtered (Dan 9:26). After his death, the pilgrims on the road to Emmaus were sad and gloomy, until the risen Jesus explained the Scriptures and broke the Bread. And this happened, we may believe, right here! (see here).
In recent times, Sister Josephine (1850-1927), of the Order of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, was given the task of erecting a shrine in this historic place. We will talk about her amazing life (see here).
In Sister Josephine's mind, the Basilica was to be a place of perpetual adoration. For those who know how to meditate, perpetual adoration is the natural flowering of the grace of this place, the appropriate response to its historical significance. Will our time be able to live it (see here).
