Mary in Holy Scriptures

We learn very little about Mary in the Scriptures. Indeed, if we weighed the Scriptures by the kilo and if we counted the actual number of verses - this is undoubtedly the truth. But does God really want us to reason like this?

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus lived with Mary for thirty years, not counting the nine months of Mary's pregnancy and His three years of public life (Luke 2: 51).
The Revelation of John tells us that the Virgin Mary is the Ark of the Convenant - the very heart of the Old Testament (Rev 11: 19).
God's blessing is on Mary (Luke 1: 42), the "most favored one" (Luke 1: 28) whom the Holy Spirit came upon. (Luke 1: 35) She herself was obliged to admit that "all generations shall count me blessed" (Luke 1: 48).
The Old Testament announces Christ prophetically, but it also depicts the image of Mary in a hidden way (the Ark of the Convenant, Noah's Ark, the Burning Bush, God's Paradise, the Tabernacle of the Most High One, the Temple of God, the Daughter of Zion, Isaiah's Virgin, the Bride of the Song of Songs, etc.).

The Holy Spirit is not referred to very often in the Scriptures either. However, the few passages evoking the third person of the Holy Trinity (i.e. Matt 28: 20) lead us to understand that He is equal to the Father and the Son, and that He is God. Sometimes it is necessary to go beyond mere appearances.

In accordance with the Church, let us try to deepen our true understanding of the importance of God's Word. For example, Jesus said that a tree is judged by its fruit, and that a good tree cannot bear bad fruit (Matt 7: 20, 12: 34; Luke 6: 43). There is no fruit more beautiful than Jesus Christ Himself. And as Jesus is the blessed fruit (Luke 1: 42) of the womb of this extraordinary tree which is Mary, we are able to have an idea of the goodness and the greatness of the Mother of God simply by looking at Jesus Christ... Let us return to the Holy Scriptures, resumed by Hugh de Saint Victor, taken from Saint Alphonse of Liguori:

"So be the Lamb, so be the Mother, because one recognizes the tree by its fruit."