Please help me in a very difficult situation. A very close friend, who has been my prayer partner, has fallen into mortal sin. Because of a difficult situation at our parish school, she withdrew her kids and stopped attending mass regularly. This is bad enough, but I recently found out that she let her old boy friend move in with her. She’s divorced with no annulment. How can I help her?
The Green Scapular is for everyone, faith or no faith, saint or sinner.
It is a gift from Mary to everyone but especially people in greatest need.
Ten years after the manifestation of the Miraculous Medal to Sister Catherine Laboure in
1830, the Blessed Mother entrusted the Green Scapular of her Immaculate Heart to
Sister Justine Bisqueyburu, likewise a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
How to use it.
Wear or carry the green scapular for yourself.
To help another, place it in their vicinity (i.e. their room, wallet, purse, or all over; lamp,house,car, chair, bed).
Pray, at least daily: “Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our
death.”
This prayer should be said for oneself and separately for each person to whom it has been
given (unless they pray it themselves, which they might not do)
Scapular(s) should be blessed by a priest.
Have the strongest possible trust in Mary’s promise.
Mary’s own words were:
“The GREATEST graces come from using the scapular but these graces come
in direct proportion to the degree of CONFIDENCE IN ME which the user has.”
The user is you, not the one to whom you give it to.
Confidence means that you believe Mary will keep her promises. (How could she not do so?)
It just means you do your part and she will do hers.
Promises of Mary:
… Conversion of those who do not have the faith
… Reconciliation to the Church for those who have lost/strayed from the faith
… Assurance of a happy death
… Strengthening of the faith for those already in the Church
… Protection from Satan for those who wear or promote the scapular
Be faithful to the prayer every day.
She didn’t say when, just that she promised it would happen.
“Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
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My father, a fallen-away Catholic, passed away several years ago. When he first became ill
and was hospitalized, one of the Vincentian priest pinned a Green Scapular to his pillow. I
know my mother was especially worried about his salvation, as he had not awakened following emergency surgery. He did awaken many days later, and that same Vincentian asked if he wished to receive the sacraments. He was on a ventilator, so he could not speak, but he could indicate “yes” or “no”, so the priest simply asked if he was sorry for any and all
sins he committed, then he was given Extreme Unction. This was 2 years to the day of my auto accident, August 3rd. He died 2 days later, on the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows on August 5th. There is a promise attached to the Green Scapular that Our Lady will obtain the
conversion of those who have fallen away from the True Faith. I’m convinced she did so with
my father, the day of his death was clearly Providential.
