Question about wearing a scapular

[tinalewis]

Hi everyone - I’ve seen many posts about the brown scapular and I enjoy reading them.

Last week one morning as I was putting my own brown scapular back on after my shower I began to wonder about the people who put theirs aside at some point in their lives rather than continue wearing it. Would the time come that I would do that same?

So my question is this: For everyone who was enrolled in the brown scapular but who no longer wears the actual brown wool scapular, what prompted you to stop wearing it every day?

 

[tinalewis]

OK, I’ll answer this question myself - with what I’m hoping won’t happen.

One morning I’ll be so rushed or stressed that I will forget to put my brown scapular back on. That’s happened once, so it’s possible it could happen again. Then when I get home in the evening I will have forgotten again and will be so tired that I will “leave it” until the next morning. And then the cycle repeats. However, it’s difficult for me to imagine that whether it’s hours or days of forgetting, that I won’t miss it so that I’ll look to see where I left it and then put it back on. Or else grab a new one from my box of religious items.

Another scenario could be that I go in the hospital for surgery or after an accident and of course the medical personnel will remove it. It will be “gone” or at least mingled with my clothes and other belongings and I’ll be so “out of it” that I won’t notice or worse, notice but be helpless to do anything about it. And that this state of partial consciousness will continue however long. All bets would be off as to when or whether or not I’d be wearing a brown scapular again in this case.

I just hope neither of these cases occurs (or if the first case recurs, then I’ll have the desire to replace my brown scapular sooner rather than later.).