The Ark of the Covenant

Book Resources: Chapter 3, Section 1: Tracing the Church’s Holiness

Film Focus Point: This program recreates the Ark of the Covenant using 3-D animation and according to the details explained in Exodus 25:10-22.

Text Focus Point: Page 102

Discussion Questions:

1. The Bible is very detailed when describing how to make the Ark of the Covenant. Why is this detail important?
2. The back room of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was called the Holy of Holies. What was the room’s relationship to the Ark of the Covenant?
3. The Blessed Mother is sometimes compared to the Ark of the Covenant in the New Testament. What is the correlation between her and the Ark?

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