Brown Scapular

[scc11]

I posted this question on another thread but I guess this is a more appropriate Forum to ask it in. I was looking into the brown scapular online and I would like to pursue it but my question is, should I wait a while? I was looking through my First Communion things and low and behold I had a brown scapular with my first communion rosary! It has wither paper pictures glued on brown cloth and they are covered in plastic. I know in order to be invested in the brown scapular, it has to be blessed my priest or deacon. I am very close with a deacon ay my parish and he would have no problem doing it but should I wait a while and pray, settle my mind and thoughts and then invest. My brown scapular is attached to another scapular of St Simon Stock. Is this ok or do I need a totally different one?

 

[Nelka]

Sounds fine to me.

I had mine blessed by the priest at the end of my confession. I just held it through the gap and he blessed it.

 

[Dorothy]

I posted this question on another thread but I guess this is a more appropriate Forum to ask it in. I was looking into the brown scapular online and I would like to pursue it but my question is, should I wait a while? I was looking through my First Communion things and low and behold I had a brown scapular with my first communion rosary! It has wither paper pictures glued on brown cloth and they are covered in plastic. I know in order to be invested in the brown scapular, it has to be blessed my priest or deacon. I am very close with a deacon ay my parish and he would have no problem doing it but should I wait a while and pray, settle my mind and thoughts and then invest. My brown scapular is attached to another scapular of St Simon Stock. Is this ok or do I need a totally different one?

The brown scapular does have two squares of brown cloth which may or may not be covered with pictures. It sounds to me that you have one scapular, as their are strings attached so that each piece of cloth hangs one in the front, one in the back, by placing the strings on your shoulders. St. Simon Stock is a Carmelite saint, so it is appropriate that his picture was chosen to be on one of the cloths.

 

[Phaedra777]

I was looking through my First Communion things and low and behold I had a brown scapular with my first communion rosary!

We–meaning my classmates and I-, were all enrolled with the Scapular at First Communion. Granted, that was in the 1960’s, so if you were much later and don’t specifically remember being enrolled, go for it now.

 

[lily20]

Do it now!

 

[eli1118]

If I would like to wear one, would I purchase one and have it blessed? What are the rules for wearing one? All the time? etc?
thanks in advance,
eli