As we journey through the faith, we will always try to reference the appropriate scriptures that support the things we state. It helps to understand how the Old and New Testaments relate to one another. Basically, the whole Old Testament prepares us for the coming of Christ and the New Testament is his coming into the world as God made flesh and redeeming the whole human race on the cross. One of the main ways we can see God preparing us in the Old Testament is through Typology – this is the “pre-figuring” of things in the Old Testament that are fulfilled and perfected in the New Testament. The next entry I’ll put here applies Typology to the Blessed Virgin Mary – for those who have never seen these relationships between old and new, it will be quite the eye opener. I remember browsing through a Christian store with a small Catholic section one day and the clerk came over and asked about the Virgin Mary and why Catholics revere her so much. I went through the typology quickly and, while he certainly wasn’t converted on the spot, I am very sure that he had a much different view of our Blessed Mother after that conversation…planting seeds!