Experience with the Green Scapular?

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Has anyone had any experience with the Green Scapular? And for instance, if you knew of someone who could use help, (like majorly) but you only talked to them a few times and you were pretty sure they would find you crazy for suggesting they have one, where you you put it? Especially if they weren’t related in any way.
 
Try getting a few miraculous medals blessed and leave them around there house- in and out. Put them in places where they may never find them. This medal was called miraculous for a reason. When it came out there were so many miracles it got the appropriate name. Must be blessed though.

If you wear one you get a priest to endroll you.
 
John Russell Jr:
Try getting a few miraculous medals blessed and leave them around there house- in and out. Put them in places where they may never find them. This medal was called miraculous for a reason. When it came out there were so many miracles it got the appropriate name. Must be blessed though.

If you wear one you get a priest to endroll you.
What does endroll mean?
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What does endroll mean?
:o
Sorry. Sounds a bit bullyish. I meant enroll ( make you an official member of the confraternity). God bless.
 
I didn’t know you had to have a miraculous medal blessed to wear one. Huh. I guess I should take mine to be blessed, I’ve been wearing it for months now…
 
Hi Celia, Your going to love this story.And get enrolled. It follows-

How the Miraculous Medal Changed My Life

by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

Below is from a talk Fr. Hardon has given various times.


One of the most memorable experiences that I ever had was with the Miraculous Medal! It changed my life. In the fall of 1948, the year after my ordination, I was in what we call the Tertianship. This is a third year of Novitiate before taking final vows.

In October of that year, a Vincentian priest came to speak to us young Jesuit priests. He encouraged us to obtain faculties, as they are called, to enroll people in the Confraternity of the Miraculous Medal. Among other things, he said, “Fathers, the Miraculous Medal works. Miracles have been performed by Our Lady through the Miraculous Medal.”

I was not impressed by what the Vincentian priest was telling. I was not the medal-wearing kind of person and I certainly did not have a Miraculous Medal. But I thought to myself, “It does not cost anything.” So I put my name down to get a four page leaflet from the Vincentians, with the then-Latin formula for blessing Miraculous Medals and enrolling people in the Confraternity of the Miraculous Medal. About two weeks later, I got the leaflet for blessing and enrollment, put it into my office book and forgot about it.

In February of the next year, I was sent to assist the chaplain of St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. I was to be there helping the regular chaplain for two weeks.

Each morning I received a list of all the patients admitted into the hospital that day. There were so many Catholics admitted that I could not visit them all as soon as they came.

Among the patients admitted was a boy about nine years old. He had been sled-riding down hill, lost control of the sled and ran into a tree head-on. He fractured his skull and X-rays showed he had suffered severe brain damage.

When I finally got to visit his room at the hospital, he had been in a coma for ten days, no speech, no voluntary movements of the body. His condition was such that the only question was whether he would live. There was no question of recovering from what was diagnosed as permanent and inoperble brain damage.

After blessing the boy and consoling his parents, I was about to leave his hospital room. But then a thought came to me. “That Vincentian priest. He said, ‘The Miraculous Medal works.’ Now this will be a test of its alleged miraculous powers!”

I didn’t have a Miraculous Medal of my own. And everyone I asked at the hospital also did not have one. But I persisted, and finally one of the nursing sisters on night duty found a Miraculous Medal.

What I found out was that you don’t just bless the medal, you have to put it around a person’s neck on a chain or ribbon. So the sister-nurse found a blue ribbon for the medal, which made me feel silly. What was I doing with medals and blue ribbons.

However, I blessed the medal and had the father hold the leaflet for investing a person in the Confraternity of the Miraculous Medal. I proceeded to recite the words of investiture. No sooner did I finish the prayer of enrolling the boy in the Confraternity than he opened his eyes for the first time in two weeks. He saw his mother and said, “Ma, I want some ice cream.” He had been given only intravenous feeding.

This Experience Changed My Life

Then he proceeded to talk to his father and mother. After a few minutes of stunned silence, a doctor was called. The doctor examined the boy and told the parents they could give him something to eat.

The next day began a series of tests on the boy’s condition. X-rays showed the brain damage was gone.

Then still more tests. After three days, when all examinations showed there was complete restoration to health, the boy was released from the hospital.

This experience so changed my life that I have not been the same since. My faith in God, faith in His power to work miracles, was strengthened beyond description.

Since then, of course, I have been promoting devotion to Our Lady and the use of the Miraculous Medal. The wonders she performs, provided we believe, are extraordinary.

In teaching theology over the years, I have many semesters taught the theology of miracles. And I have an unpublished book manuscript on “The History and Theology of Miracles.” My hope is to publish the manuscript in the near future.
 
That’s a really neat story. I haven’t heard that one before, but I have heard similar. 🙂 Thanks for the advice. I’ll get enrolled. 😃 The only thing I need to figure out is how to help this person I know…we are both 13…so I can’t exactly just go to their house (even though I know where it is)
 
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khkhk:
That’s a really neat story. I haven’t heard that one before, but I have heard similar. 🙂 Thanks for the advice. I’ll get enrolled. 😃 The only thing I need to figure out is how to help this person I know…we are both 13…so I can’t exactly just go to their house (even though I know where it is)
Hi,
Sounds like you really care about this person. Have a few Masses offered for them. Offer up some rosary’s and sacrifices too. If you can’t talk or go to their house, this may be the best option. Many miracles have happenned through the rosary, too.
 
John Russell Jr:
Hi,
Sounds like you really care about this person. Have a few Masses offered for them. Offer up some rosary’s and sacrifices too. If you can’t talk or go to their house, this may be the best option. Many miracles have happenned through the rosary, too.
Yeah, I do care about this person. I already offer up rosaries and masses for them…I have for awhile now. One thing I do notice is that when I do pray for them, they are a bit nicer to me, and they seem to talk a bit more…
:cool:
 
By the way, I will probably never see this person again after June 2 (graduation date-I’m in 8th grade and I started at the school just this year…)
 
The only other advice I can offer you, since the person will be leaving soon, is to consecrate them to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Some say you can’t consecrate someone else. But I read a story of a woman who got deeply involved with new age and while her daughter was young she happenned to find herself in a Catholic Church and found such an act of consecration. She consecrated her daughter, and her daughter found her way back to the Church, while she was still a child and her mother a rampant new ager. Now the daughter is a lady and she wants to be a nun. The mother came back to the Church too. So why not try it. Good luck.
 
John Russell Jr:
The only other advice I can offer you, since the person will be leaving soon, is to consecrate them to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Some say you can’t consecrate someone else. But I read a story of a woman who got deeply involved with new age and while her daughter was young she happenned to find herself in a Catholic Church and found such an act of consecration. She consecrated her daughter, and her daughter found her way back to the Church, while she was still a child and her mother a rampant new ager. Now the daughter is a lady and she wants to be a nun. The mother came back to the Church too. So why not try it. Good luck.
Thanks for the advice…I’ll try it…maybe it’ll work…
🙂
 
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