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[brooklynite]

A Virgin Mary statue has been ‘weeping’ olive oil. Church leaders can’t explain it.

Inside a Catholic church in New Mexico, a seven-foot-tall bronze statue of the Virgin Mary appears to be “weeping,” according to church leaders.

The sculpture, known locally as Our Lady of Guadalupe, is not crying human tears; an investigator with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces said her “tears” have the same chemical makeup as olive oil treated with perfume — a substance that, when blessed, would be chrism, a sacred oil used in the Catholic Church to anoint parishioners. But, church leaders say, the rare occurrence has prompted people from all over to come for conversions, confessions and to watch the statue of the mother of God cry.

The question, one expert says, is not merely how it’s happening (or whether it’s happening naturally) but how people are responding to the phenomenon and why they may want to believe in it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/18/a-virgin-mary-statue-has-been-weeping-olive-oil-church-leaders-cant-explain-it/

[DetlefK]

1. I have once seen a weeping statue. No, really.

It was a guided tour through an old and famous church. At one point we stopped in front of a wooden statue of Jesus Christ.

The tour-guide told us that the statue sometimes sheds tears, but that there is a mundane explanation for that: Decades ago, the statue fell to the ground and was glued back together. Now, whenever there's a hot day, a little bit of the glue melts and seeps from the statue as tears.

[3Hotdogs]

2. I recall in the 70's, a woman was baking tortillas. The face of Jesus appeared on one.

I started to write a hymn about it—

Oh sacred tortilla,
We’re longin’ to see ya,


I didn’t finish it. I should have. I would have been rich today.

[edhopper]

3. Weeping Statues is an old con

they use oil because water does not act like tears.

[Cartoonist]

4. What is "chrism", Alex?

A mixture of oil of olives and balsam, blessed by a bishop in a special manner and used in the administration of certain sacraments and in the performance of certain ecclesiastical functions. That chrism may serve as valid matter for the Sacrament of Confirmation it must consist of pure oil of olives, and it must be blessed by a bishop, or at least by a priest delegated by the Holy See. These two conditions are certainly necessary for validity; moreover it is probable that there should be an admixture of balsam, and that the blessing of the chrism should be special, in the sense that it ought to be different from that which is given to the oil of the sick or the oil of catechumens. If either of the last two conditions is wanting the sacrament will be doubtfully valid.
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That's another thing I never learned in Catholic school.

So someone gives me a gift of some chrism. How do I know if it's been blessed by a bishop or a priest?

[brooklynite]

6. Price tag...

[marylandblue]

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You have my personal guarantee. If you don't feel blessed after pouring this on your spaghetti, I'll give you another bottle free!

[MineralMan]

5. It's a miracule, I tells ya!

A miracule! Faith made it happen. That and a little bottle of "Tears of Mary Chrism" in the reservoir at the back of that statue's head. But, it's been blessed, so it's OK.

A Miracule!

[MineralMan]

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