J.M.J.
An excerpt from "Where Mary Goes, We will Go"
by David Wallace, M.A.,
(Adjunct Professor at
the Christendom Graduate School of Theology
in Alexandria, Virginia)
in the Arlington Catholic Herald, July 22, 2020
The dogma of the Assumption is unveiled typologically through a meditation on Mary as the ark of the covenant, which contains the new manna and eternal high priest, the Incarnate Word. No one can read, for example, Mary’s visit to Elizabeth in Luke’s Gospel (Lk 1:39-56) without seeing the fulfillment of David bringing the ark to Jerusalem (2 Sam 6). As Mary “arose and went with haste into the hill county” of Judea, so too a thousand years earlier did David, who, upon seeing the Ark, cried out, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” Seeing Mary, Elizabeth asked how “the mother of my Lord should come to me?” As David had danced before the ark, John leapt within his mother’s womb. As the ark stayed in the house of Obed-edom three months, Mary remained three months in the house of Zechariah. Just as Elizabeth “filled with the Holy Spirit … exclaimed with a loud cry,” so too did the people exult before the ark of the Lord (1 Chron 15:28; 16:4-5; 2 Chron 5:13).
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