Is the wearing of medals or scapulars superstitious?

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This is a discussion forum. People are going to discuss posts that you make. If you want to just discuss with the OP, then you would be better off using the private messaging.

Other people who are not familiar with Catholics or medals read this forum. Your post implies that three medals is “so many” when it is basically a normal number. Therefore, I responded.
 
I hope you at least laundered or replaced the scapular during the 30 years, although I guess wearing it into the shower might help to keep it clean.
 
you know it is funny; the one i am wearing has survived so long

i don’t think it smells

if it fell apart; i’d just throw it in the fireplace, go & get another one & have it blessed
 
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By all means make your contribubutions, but don’t expect me to respond.
I am simply waiting to hear back from the OP - who is the one I spoke to.
 
You have a point.
And at the same time Carmelites warn about the scapular that is not a miraculous and healing charm…
Yes i have also seen that Medalion of St Catharine is going to bring yoy this and this but if course not like the lamp of Aladin,i see people are hopeless but not naive…
Maybe a nice material thing a reminder or evidence for faith
 
Right. Then what more is there?

Let’s not descend into the stupidity I have to deal with in London, where Christian students are scolded or beaten by Muslim students because they got offended by seeing a person wearing a cross pendant. It’s laughable.

Medals and medallions have personal significance. Unless you are walking around wearing only the medal (lol) then I can’t fathom a problem.

People act as if they are walking around with religious equivalent of Saurons ring from LotR.

Just another excuse to bash Catholics as noted.

Get back to the Protestant when you start to believe your medal turns you invisible or communes with Mordor.

Otherwise. Have at it and don’t let them get to you 👍
 
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I wear a crucifix as well. It seems the crucifix doesn’t bother her; it’s the Brown Scapular, and the St. Benedict Medal, and Miraculous Medal she seemed to really think was outrageous. Actually she laughed at the Scapular saying " what so no matter what you do if you die wearing that you go to heaven?"
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Most Protestants I know believe “once saved always saved”.

So I’m confused why she would say this about your scapular in a mocking way.
 
If you are not prepared to reveal your motivation or reasons for wearing these items then nobody here can answer your question. Superstition is not simply about what is done on the outside.
For if that were true my wife is into ancestor worship simply by lighting a joss stick to a picture of her deceased parents in a small shrine in a corner of the house.
 
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HAHAHAHA, I’m reminded of my dear mama…who had a little “pouch” of medals that she wore pinned to her bra! She jingled when she walked. God bless mama, she prayed so hard for all of us. I know those devotions benefited us.
 
Just my two cents:
but I believe these things make people of other faiths uncomfortable because it is a reminder that they are living outside of the faith.
 
Clare has said that sacramentals are like things that
REMIND us of God’s graces and mercy, but they also
convey the blessings which come with the blessing
by the priest. charms and amulets are superstitious
in that they are not associated w/ God and at worst
satanic in the “blessings” they convey.
 
Not sure if anyone said this yet, but I read some of the posts here so far.

I did want to add this thought or element into the discussion.

Mary said in the Miraculous Medal revelation that “those who wear the medal around their neck with faith will receive great graces!”

So, I think some sacramentals, are connected with the world of grace in a unique way.

Oh, yeah, also, as most all you know, the devil hates sacramentals, he has an aversion to them, so I would think they do offer some measure of protection against His tricks, etc.
 
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You believe Protestants are without faith in God and Jesus?
 
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Where the heck did you get that?

People can be mistaken about what the Church teaches. We pray for communion with the other churches who have rejected the original church. The FULLNESS subsists within Catholicism.
Doesn’t mean they don’t know Christ. They are living without valid Eucharist and proper interpretation of the Scriptures though.
 
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jas84173 said:
One of my Protestant friends told me that is superstitious and a sin, believing it can be used as a “charm” and actually is an act almost as vile as going to a medium or using tarot cards or a Ouija board.
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Short answer is that it can be superstitious and it can be sinful and wrong.

A sacramental has no power other than to serve as a reminder and a reinforcement of a devotion to God.

It is wrong when people where a scapular and believe that if I die with it on, I will automatically go to Heaven.

It is wrong to bury a statue to St Joseph upside down in order to sell one’s house.

It is wrong to believe that being touched by a relic of a saint will cure a disease

Some Catholics believe these things and unfortunately these beliefs are often reinforced by their priest or elders.
 
Well the do in that they are not Catholics.

No one ever said people of other faiths don’t know Jesus or don’t go to heaven.

But they are mistaken about many things.
 
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No one ever said people of other faiths don’t know Jesus or don’t go to heaven.
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So by “they live outside the faith” you really meant they are uncomfortable because it reminds them they are not Catholics? I would have thought that rather self-evident.
Fairly clearly it was not what you originally meant and you now seem to be back-tracking as a few unconscious prejudices are peeping out.

That’s OK, we all have them, but perhaps its good to recognise and own them.
 
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