The Assumption and the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

To access two doctrinal homily outlines for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and one for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, please click here and then scroll down.

Here is an excerpt considering how the Ark of the Covenant prefigures Mary as Ark of the New Covenant.

• The Ark of the Covenant was the beautiful and precious chest, designed by God, which contained God’s Word, the tablets on which God himself wrote the Law he gave to Moses.
• This reading is an example of how New Testament realities are hidden in the Old Testament. The Ark is a type or foreshadowing of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is the beautiful and precious vessel, designed by God to be free of Original Sin and filled with every grace, to contain the very Word of God, the Incarnate Son of the Father and Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
• This is why in the Litany of Loreto one of the titles Our Lady is praised with is “Ark of the Covenant.”