Tomb, Bones
See also: Agony, Death.
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The bones? What are they? Proof of the power of God who drew man from dust. Nothing else.[1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
Burial
- The bones? What are they? Proof of the power of God who drew man from dust. Nothing else.[2]
- The bones of the just, even dried and scattered, spread a purifying balm and seeds of eternal life.[3]
- We Hebrews do not make drawings on tombs as the Gentiles do. But if we did, we should always draw, not the extinguished flame, the empty hourglass, or another symbol of an end, but God the seed cast into the furrow that blooms into an ear of grain.[4]
Spiritual death
- (On spiritual death): But if the Most High feels this pain, and it is already great, what will be his pain for those of his People who are bleached bones, lifeless, without life, without spirit?[5]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
The Notebooks of 1943
- Catechesis of July 22, 1943: Can you say that I did not love this land (Italy) where I brought the Relics of my life and death: the house of Nazareth where I was conceived in an embrace of luminous ardor between the divine Spirit and the Virgin, and the Shroud on which the sweat of my death imprinted the mark of my suffering, endured for humanity? (Salton Maria Valtorta, these two Relics are therefore authenticated).[6]
The Notebooks of 1944
- Catechesis of January 5, 1944: Your legend tells that when the tomb of the Virgin Mary was reopened for Thomas, there were only flowers. Mary's tomb did not engulf her corpse. Mary's corpse was not there. Mary did not die […] You have no Relics of Mary's body, nor of her tomb since she had none.[7]