One of the chief watering statues at the parish - it’s of Christ’s mother and is about three feet high and is olive in color - is affixed to a wood base on the side of the main altar. God, if He’s behind all this, makes His unfathomable choices, picks His unsuspecting spots. A cleric with an extremely low profile even within his own diocese. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ridge. He’s a low-ranking associate pastor at St. The man apparently making this happen isn’t a cardinal or a bishop or some other church potentate. Though not just the otherworldly, come to think of it. There’s always a certain unpredictability. Or the guy making this happen, who clearly has a head problem, has magic buttons up the sleeve of his black priest shirt. It’s done with mirrors and blue smoke, natch. Sometimes it’s just an odd drop of water or two a particular statue will produce, and sometimes it’s a whole coursing mini-stream. This isn’t possible, of course, but a 37-year-old Catholic priest in the exurbs of Washington, down among the split-levels of I-95, is touching parish statues - and they start to “weep.” Small crystal clear droplets of water will visibly well up in the statues’ eyes, will line the ridge of their noses, will suspend at their chins, will form Lilliputian pools at their plaster or bronze or wood or fiberglass feet. Proof positive you can be seeing something and still not believe you’re seeing it. There are four tiny puddles of water at the statue’s base now. It’s as if the water is just appearing right out of the plaster and then rolling downward.Ī bead forms under the alabaster-pink chin. The Washington Post reporter is standing maybe four inches from the Blessed Mother’s nose. But the eye is very small and so it is hard to know for sure. The water, from what the naked eye can tell, is forming at the corner of the right eye. This statue seems actually to be producing water. No battery-operated tear ducts like a religious Chatty Cathy with a hole in her back where you put in the size C’s. The statue, which has a halo and seems to be made of plaster, is on a fake wood bookcase. There’s something entirely new in his demeanor. This from The Washington Post, March 13, 1992: He has no idea why the miracles started and why they stopped. From 1991-1993 this priest in Virginia had the stigmata. It has always surprised me that the Church does not emphasize the miracles that have routinely occurred though out her history. Pictured above stigmatic priest Father James Bruse.ĪugReported in from. Visions of Jesus - Stigmatic priest in U.S.
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