Do You Wear the Scapular?

[Mrs_V]

I did for many years, but when the last one wore out I hung it up on the car’s rearview mirror and never got around to buying a replacement. I do wear a medal with an image of Jesus on one side and OLO Guadalupe on the other. Would that be considered a scapular medal?

 

[Lost_Sheep]

I hope you change your mind someday. The only thing that can’t get you back into a relationship with God is your refusal to do so, which is the sin of final impenitence.

Probably the only thing that would change my mind would be if God would show his face and tell me in person. But we both know that will never happen.

 

[Generic_Name]

No.

 

[ineeda]

I just tried wearing one, and it really bothers me in the back. I am going to check out getting a medal where I don’t have it in the back. My back is very sensitive, and the scapular was really bothering me. I would like to wear one, though.

 

[sam_romo]

I believe that anyone who loves Our Blessed Mother and has great devotion to Her should lovingly wear Her Brown Scapular ( It takes a little while to get used to in the the beginning , but later , It becomes a part of one ), even though we always have Her in our hearts . I read many years ago that Our Blessed Mother wants the Brown Scapular to be worn always inside one"s clothing .I’v met devout persons wearing it out , but I just don’t say nothing .If I may just add - we never , never should name our Guardian Angels . I’v also have met devout Catholics mention naming their angels , but , I keep it to myself God bless To Jesus through Mary

 

[CathBoy1]

Yes I do, started wearing a brown scapular as a small child around the time of my first communion (about 22 years now).
I now wear the five fold scapular (red,blue,brown,black and white) I never take it off, I love that it includes a St Benedict medal and a Crucifix.

 

[asia53]

I did for many years, but when the last one wore out I hung it up on the car’s rearview mirror and never got around to buying a replacement. I do wear a medal with an image of Jesus on one side and OLO Guadalupe on the other. Would that be considered a scapular medal?

No, that is not a Brown Scapular medal.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

I did for many years, but when the last one wore out I hung it up on the car’s rearview mirror and never got around to buying a replacement. I do wear a medal with an image of Jesus on one side and OLO Guadalupe on the other. Would that be considered a scapular medal?

If the image of Jesus has His Heart exposed, then yes it would count as a scapular medal; the obverse of the medal is to have an image of the Mother of God but the legislation does not demand any specific depiction.

Since 1910 and the regulation of the Holy Office of 16 December of that year (Acta Apost. Sedis, III, 22 sq.) it is permitted to wear, instead of one or more of the small scapulars a single medal of metal. This medal must have on one side a representation of Jesus Christ with His Most Sacred Heart and on the other an image of the Mother of God. All persons who have been validly invested with a blessed woollen scapular may replace such by this medal. The medal must be blessed by a priest possessing the faculty to bless and invest with the scapular or scapulars which the medal is to replace. The faculties to bless these medals are subject to the same conditions and limitations as the faculties to bless and invest with the corresponding scapulars. If the medal is to be worn instead of a number of different scapulars, it must receive the blessing that would be attached to each of them, i.e. as many blessings as the number of scapulars it replaces. For each blessing a sign of the Cross suffices. This medal must also be worn constantly, either about the neck or in some other seemly manner, and with it may be attained all the indulgences and privileges of the small scapulars without exception. Only the small (not the large) scapulars may be validly replaced by such medals.

newadvent.org/cathen/13508b.htm

This is from before the promulgation of the new Book of Blessing and Enchiridion. Any priest or deacon could now bless the medal and the medal could then substitute for the scapular; it does need to be blessed once per scapular being substituted and the substitution must take place after investiture with the cloth scapular.

(I should clarify that the distinction the article is making between large and small scapulars concerns the status of the person wearing it. Small scapulars are worn by members of the confraternities. The large scapulars are reserved to tertiaries of the third orders and they have their own internal constitutions that govern the substitutions for wearing the scapular.)

These blessings are no longer reserved since the time of the Council.

 

[MichaelT65]

I am beginning to wear the scapular everyday. I need to get invested in it, though, but my parish priest just gave it a simple blessing and refused to invest me with it even though I printed out the investing rite and all for him Oh well…I just sometimes take it off and forget to put it back on, but I am slowly getting better at it. Haha

I wear mine 24/7 except when I shower but I put it on immediately after I get out of the shower.
My parish priest blessed mine but had never heard of the enrollment process so I found it and emailed it to him.
He will do th ceremony when it is convenient for both of us.
I’m hoping soon.
Anyway I also wear a green scapular every day as well.
Peace in Christ

 

[kainosktisis]

Yes, I wear the brown scapular. It was blessed, but I don’t know if I was officially enrolled although I have seen info on it (I just assumed that when our priest had blessed it, I was automatically enrolled - that was the impression I’d gotten…).

I was going through RCIA, & I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament one morning before Mass. I had my eyes closed while praying, so I will never know who it was who’d left it for me, but someone had placed a brown scapular on the kneeler for me to take (Someone had once commented to me how I was the only person in our group who showed any affinity for the Blessed Sacrament, so I wonder if it may’ve been that person). I showed it to some of the people leading the RCIA group, & I was instructed on how to wear it.

I wear it always - unless I am showering, it needs washing, or some task that would pull it off or damage it in some way requires its removal, but otherwise, it remains on my person…