Candlemas closes the Christmas season. Bede pulled together threads from a network connecting Jesus’s birth and the redemptive sacrifice on the Cross making the new covenant adumbrated by the ...

Verse 19 above is the revelation of God through the ark of the covenant. This symbol is carried over from the Hebrew Scriptures into the new revelation after the one who has been pierced is celebrated ...

10 1219 The Church has seen in Noah's ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism ... the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery of the cross. By this symbolism ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme ... but also lauded as a symbol of the country’s commitment to a fundamental American value: that all ...

Some 1,500 years old, the stone tablet is a remarkable religious and historical artifact — and a symbol of one of ... discover the story of the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred chest said to ...

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the most sacred relics of Jewish and Christian tradition. The chest is said to hold the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were originally inscribed, and ...

Spe Salvi, 2007 Who more than Mary could be a star of hope for us? …she became the living Ark of the Covenant, in whom God took flesh, became one of us, and pitched his tent among us (cf. Jn 1:14). 49 ...

First, in Exodus 25:18-21, God commands Moses to make two statues of angels (cherubim) for the top of the Ark of the Covenant. Later in Numbers 21:8-9, God commands Moses to make a bronze serpent ...

An unlikely symbol of cooperation, the barn owl is now getting global attention. Experts from 12 countries gathered in Greece last week to discuss an effort to help this remarkable predator that ...

It breaks my heart every time I see the symbol Yahweh set apart to be a reminder to us of ... He along with his sons and their wives and the specific animals God instructed were allowed in the ark God ...