Just received my first scapular

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and I’d like to know what to do now 🙂

Carmelite Sisters near me posted it to me. Do I now take it to my priest to be blessed and enrolled? Do I need to bring him something that will tell him how to enroll me or will he just know?

I am pretty excited to be devoted in this way to our Lady!

Many thanks!
 
Oh, and what are the exact daily requirements? I do say the rosary everyday - does that fulfill the duties?
 
Any priest can bless the brown scapular. The first wool one is the only one that needs to be blessed or enrolled. The blessing carries over. I have 8 scapulars at home. I was unaware of how long they last. My current one I’ve been wearing for over 2 years and it is still like brand new.

You are now considered a 4th Order Carmelite. Read the writings of Pope John Paul II regarding the Brown Scapular.

The only daily requirement is 3 Hail Marys per day, but usually people will pray an entire rosary.

Remember, Our Lady always leads us to her son.

NB. All metal scapulars have to be blessed. The blessing does not carry over from the original one like the wool one does.
 
Thank you for the replies kind people :D:D

Do I just take the scapular along with me and will the priest know how to enroll me?

Or do I need to give him like a print out of the enrollment prayer?
 
I found this online: It is meant to be the enrollment procedure:

Priest - Show us, O Lord, Thy mercy.

Respondent- And grant us Thy salvation.

Priest - Lord, hear my prayer.

Respondent - And let my cry come unto Thee.

Priest - The Lord be with you.

Respondent - And also with you.

Priest - Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, sanctify by Thy power these scapulars, which for love of Thee and for love of Our lady of Mount Carmel, Thy servants will wear devoutly, so that through the intercession of the same Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and protected against the evil spirit, they persevere until death in Thy grace. Thou who lives and reigns world without end. Amen.

THE PRIEST SPRINKLES HOLY WATER AND INVESTS PERSON(S) WHILE SAYING:

Receive this blessed Scapular and beseech the Blessed Virgin that through Her merits, you may wear it without stain. May it defend you against all adversity and accompany you to eternal life. Amen.

AFTER THE INVESTITURE THE PRIEST CONTINUES WITH THE PRAYERS:

I, by the power vested in me, admit you to participate in all the spiritual benefits obtained through the mercy of Jesus Christ by the Religious Order of Mount Carmel.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

May God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and earth, bless you, He who has deigned to join you to the confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Of Mount Carmel; we beseech Her to crush the head of the ancient serpent so that you my enter into possession of your eternal heritage, through Christ our Lord.

Respondent - Amen.

Today, I asked my Priest to enroll me, and the above was not said. It got holy water sprinkling, and he said a few things, but not like the above.

Am I enrolled? He put the scapular on me (incorrectly I believe - he twisted it such that both the images were on my chest) and I have been wearing it since.

I am worried that I am not enrolled and thus shouldn’t be wearing it. I am worried that if I am not enrolled I can’t go back to him and say “look you did it wrong…”.

help?
 
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