In today’s readings, we hear of the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of God. As we recall, God wished to be present among His people through the Ark of the Covenant, which He commanded to be built of gold on the outside, but of the purest gold on the inside. All we have to do is look to the Scriptures and we will see that this is the case. That makes of the Ark the dwelling place of God, a perfect type and figure which prophesies that immaculately conceived womb that would be like the purest gold on the inside—pure. That word pure. She who was untainted by sin.