Sabbatine Privilege

[AJB328]

I was invested in the Brown Scapular last February. At the time I tried to read every thing I could about it but apart from my daily devotions, I’ve forgotten a lot of the specifics. But a poster on another thread got me thinking about the Sabbatine Privilege.

Everything I’d read said that it has been rejected, even by the Carmelites and the Papal Bull where it was first talked about (Sacratissimo uti culmine) is regarded as inauthentic. I don’t think this is necessarily a traditionalist vs Vatican II thing because the detractors were, in some cases, hundreds of years before Vatican II.

I’m not trying to start an argument or promote my opinion (I don’t have a fully formed one yet), just trying to find a source that lists it as an official indulgence or lays out the Church’s official stance on it.

Thanks for any (name removed by moderator)ut you can offer,

AJ

 

[Godfollower]

Here’s what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say about it:

newadvent.org/cathen/13289b.htm

 

[louisak]

Check out the following links:

What Does the Church Teach about the Brown Scapular? by Jimmy Akin

A Catechesis on the Brown Scapular published by the Carmelite order

Here is an interesting tidbit from the latter: “in the year 1613 the Holy See determined that the decree establishing the “Sabbatine Privilege” was unfounded and the Church admonished the Carmelite Order not to preach this doctrine. Unfortunately, the Order did not always comply with this directive of the Holy See.” - note, it is the Carmelites themselves who are now saying this. So, way back in 1613!! It is not a post-modern Vatican II issue.

 

[Gorgias]

And from the 2003 version of the encyclopedia, the New Catholic Encyclopedia:

With regard to either of the two promises, it should be noted that they cannot be reasonably represented as requiring merely the material fact of wearing the scapular without respect to the interior dispositions with which it is worn. To do so would be to attribute a magical efficacy to the scapular and make it out to be a more potent channel of grace than the Sacraments. Against the hypocrisy and formalism of the Pharisees, Our Lord taught that to be pleasing to God, worship must be an expression of the dispositions of the heart. External acts have no value in God’s sight unless they are the expression of a right mind and a sincere will. The wearing of the scapular must therefore be understood to include the right and salutary interior dispositions with which it is worn; it is primarily through these, and only remotely and instrumentally through the actual carrying of the scapular, that salvation is secured.

With regard to the promise of preservation from hell—or, and this comes to the same thing, the grace of final PERSEVERANCE, or the grace of a good death—this must always be understood in conformity with the teaching of the Church regarding the uncertainty of salvation. At most, the wearing of the scapular cannot be more than a fallible sign of pre-destination, of its nature no more certain than many others, and valid only in conjunction with the right interior dispositions.

With regard to the promise of deliverance from purgatory on the first Saturday after death, this was claimed on the basis of the supposed bull Sacratissimo uti culmine of John XXII. This bull, however, is now universally regarded by scholars as spurious . Christians are, however, permitted to hold as a matter of pious belief that the Blessed Virgin will extend her maternal help to the souls who were, while on earth, her faithful servants, and even that her beneficence in this respect may be exercised in a special way on Saturdays, for the seventh day of the week is dedicated to her cult.