Question about the Brown scapular enrollment

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During the enrollment prayer, at what point do you get officially enrolled?
When I enrolled my parents were forcing me to leave (due to time constraints)…i convinced them for just a little while, only up to the point where the priest puts the scapular on my shoulders and you step back allowing for another person then we left. I feel like I didn’t complete the enrollment, but at the same time I feel like i did?

I keep questioning if i was fully enrolled or not …or if after the placing of the scapular it’s just the end.
Thoughts?
 
If you have a doubt then why not ask the priest to enroll you at a time when there will be no time constraints.
 
During the enrollment prayer, at what point do you get officially enrolled?
When I enrolled my parents were forcing me to leave (due to time constraints)…i convinced them for just a little while, only up to the point where the priest puts the scapular on my shoulders and you step back allowing for another person then we left. I feel like I didn’t complete the enrollment, but at the same time I feel like i did?

I keep questioning if i was fully enrolled or not …or if after the placing of the scapular it’s just the end.
Thoughts?
Jimmy Akin opinion is that enrollment is completed by this phrase:
  • “I admit you to a share in all the spiritual works performed with the
    merciful help of Jesus Christ by the religious of Mount Carmel.”
http://jimmyakin.com/2006/08/valid_scapular_.html

However, this statement is given in The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Catechesis and Ritual of 2000. Catechesis and Ritual for the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – ICS Publications
A person who wears the scapular and practices the spirituality of the Carmelite Order has an affiliation, loose as it may be, to the Carmelite family and so shares in the graces traditionally associated with the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. However, simply to wear the scapular without accepting the responsibilities attached to it would be to reduce this precious sacramental to the status of a charm or good-luck piece.
 
I would suggest you carry on for now as if you are enrolled, because if you stayed for most of it, you probably are. And then, the next time you have a chance to be enrolled (such as being at Mass with a priest who knows how to do this, or elsewhere) just go through the enrollment again without leaving part way through.
 
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