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Inside the Ark

By Steve Ray

This Rock Volume 16, Number 8   October 2005     Frontispiece By Karl Keating   Letters   What About the Right to Die? By Fr. Frank Pavone   Common Myths By Fr. Frank Pavone   The Role of Deacons: Then and Now By Tim Drake   What Can and Can't Deacons Do? By Tim Drake   The Restoration of the Permanent Diaconate at the Second Vatican Council By Tim Drake   Who Were the "Great" Popes – and Why? By Fr. William Saunders   What's in a Name? By Carl E. Olson   Soteriology: Catholic v. Protestant By Carl E. Olson   Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant By Steve Ray   Mary the Ark As Revealed in Mary's Visit to Elizabeth By Steve Ray   Inside the Ark By Steve Ray   Step by Step Google versus the Pope By Kenneth J. Howell   Fathers Know Best The Real Presence   Brass Tacks The Complex Relationship between Scripture and Tradition By Jimmy Akin   Damascus Road Reincarnation Meant My Loved Ones Would Cease to Exist By Joanna Bogle   Classic Apologetics The Authenticity of the Gospels By Walter Devivier, S. J.   Quick Questions    Subscribe    Permissions

Inside the Ark of the Old Covenant	Inside Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
The stone tablets of the law—the word of God inscribed on stone	The body of Jesus Christ—the word of God in the flesh
The urn filled with manna from the wilderness—the miraculous bread come down from heaven	The womb containing Jesus, the bread of life come down from heaven (John 6:41)
The rod of Aaron that budded to prove and defend the true high priest	The actual and eternal High Priest

Steve Ray is the author of Crossing the Tiber, Upon This Rock, and St. John’s Gospel. He is also co-author of Catholic Answers’ Papacy Learning Guide. You may contact him through his web site, www.catholicconvert.com.