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It was during a trip that began November 4, 2015, that Father Wensing was celebrating an early Mass at the Church of All Cities next to the Garden of Gethsemane that it occurred.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This was before other pilgrims arrived for the day.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Afterward, half an hour<\/span> after we had started, I was quickly divesting and I heard people shouting, ‘Come back, father, come back. Something amazing is happening. Look at this rock!’<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “It was\u00a0glistening <\/span>with moisture and I thought, ‘Maybe it’s like dew on a car in the morning,’ but cars don’t get dew in a garage.” The rock is indoors.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In place of the moisture, three quarter-sized pools of blood had appeared — lasting for a just short time before evaporating.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>“There was an\u00a0an indentation on the rock and in it was what looked like blood,” says the priest.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> It was at the Garden<\/span> that Christ sweated Blood, of course, and the combination of water and Blood also recalls the Crucifixion itself, when the Lord’s side was pierced.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It is timely — this account — at a moment in history when we need to plead that Blood.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The liquid may have disappeared quickly, b<\/strong><\/span>ut not before being photographed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “We\u00a0stood outside as tourists were ready to be admitted and gathered all their evidence,” recalled the priest. “There had been twenty-one cameras and cell phones clicking.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Some also took samples on things such as a finger or on a tissue.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the eight centuries since the Franciscans first began to care for the Garden, no known sign of blood ever emerged from the Rock of Agony where Jesus prayed. Noted a newspaper: “As Wensing was leading the Mass, that all changed.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"rock-3\"](\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/rock-3.jpg\")
\nWe spoke the other day to a priest from South Dakota, Father Michael Wensing, who a year ago this past week experienced what he, his pilgrimage group, and the custodian for Franciscan shrines in the Holy Land believe was a miracle.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n“I knew the<\/strong>\u00a0Franciscans and so before other pilgrims got there, I was able to say Mass,” Father Wensing, of Holy Name Catholic Church in Watertown, told Spirit Daily<\/em>. “They opened Communion rails at the rock for us [usually this is closed to pilgrims].”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
“I was just stunned. I knelt down and blessed myself with the water and blood. One woman tasted it and said it tasted like a nosebleed.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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“We sent all the evidence<\/span> to the custodian, the Franciscan friar, in charge of all Franciscan shrines in Israel, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, now archbishop-patriarch of Jerusalem, and later he flew from Jerusalem to D.C. and met with Beth Kenny [one of the pilgrims]. He instructed friars to wipe it every morning now to see if there is a sign. He believes it was a miracle.”\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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