{"id":11951,"date":"2018-03-27T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2017-11-27T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:32:39","slug":"in-wood-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/in-wood-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Of Weeping Virgin Had Been Claimed — And Ignored — On Tree In Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Michael H. Brown<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Image Of Weeping Virgin Had Been Claimed — And Ignored — On Tree In Manhattan<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe Church officials need to take such things more seriously. Maybe they are signs of the times. We’re speaking here of a tree: on August 27 — just two weeks before the terrorist attack — The New York Post<\/em> reported on a Siberian elm on Arden Street in Manhattan’s Inwood section. According to witnesses, a stain on the tree resembled the Virgin Mary weeping<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Since last week, when one devout Catholic on the block spotted the Madonna on a common Siberian elm tree, thousands have visited the tree,” reported the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Candles surrounded it, along with what looked like small flowers and probably petitions. <\/span><\/p>\n

News had spread quickly — only to be dashed by city and Church officials who saw it as a product of overactive imaginations. Parks Commissioner Henry Stern asserted that the face was merely a scar from tree pruning. “And the tears are what’s called ‘slime flux,’ which is seepage of sap from a wound in the bark,” he claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps they’re right. But perhaps, in light of September 11, they may want to take a second look. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those who believe it and viewed it felt grace and cried themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Nelson, who lives at 80 Arden, said the Madonna was weeping because there was so little love and had told the newspaper it was “a warning.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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