Brown scapular and chastity

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Is the brown scapular suitable for married man who are still fathering babies with their wives? I am asking this as I read chastity is part of being invested and wearing the brown scapular. i.e. imitating the virtues of Mary.
 
It is chastity within your state in life. IOW, if you are married, the marital embrace is a part of your state in life. There is nothing wrong or tainted about procreating children within marriage.
 
*Chastity *is the virtue which excludes or moderates the indulgence of the sexual appetite. It is a form of the virtue of temperance, which controls according to right reason the desire for and use of those things which afford the greatest sensual pleasures. According as chastity would exclude all voluntary Carnal pleasures, or allow this gratification only within prescribed limits, it is known as absolute or relative. The former is enjoined upon the unmarried, the latter is incumbent upon those within the marriage state.

You may be confusing this virtue with *continence * (another expression of the virtue of temperance which involves mutually agreed, usually temporary abstinence from even the licit gratifications of marriage).
 
The Brown Scapular is for people of ALL states of life. Just live chastely according to your state in life. This does not mean that you may not have any more children. It just means that you must live chastely according to your state in life; i.e., don’t lust.
 
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