The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us”.  The Greek text of St John’s Gospel literally says, “pitched his tent among us” and the thoughts of his audience would immediately turn to how God guided his people through the desert and appeared to Moses in the tabernacle or ‘tent of meeting’.  The design for this is elaborately set out in the Bible and was the location of the Ark of Covenant for several centuries until Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem.  At this time, they carried the Ark from place to place as they moved about so that God would physically dwell among them.  It foreshadowed the day when God would come among us in a new way, taking our human flesh to himself in the Incarnation.  Our Lord retains this fullness of human nature now that he reigns in heaven at the right hand of the Father, but he still lives among us through the power of the Holy Spirit, and especially through his ‘real presence’ in the Blessed Sacrament.  This is why we call the place where we keep the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass ‘the Tabernacle’, usually covered with a veil unless it is an especially beautiful work of art and burn a light near it as a sign of God’s living presence among us.