“Mary, in whom the Lord himself has just made his dwelling, is the daughter of Zion in person, the Ark of the Covenant, the place where the glory of the Lord dwells. She is "the dwelling of God . . . with men” (CCC 2676). Just as the Ark of the Old Covenant provided sanctuary for the two tablets of stone given to Moses, Mary’s womb became the sanctuary, the tabernacle, the temple of Our Lord thus transforming her symbolically into the New Ark of the Covenant. “