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What do you wear?
BOTH !What do you wear?
Sorry for being a pain in the *** but your description doesn’t seem to match the Miraculous Medal. HereI’ve never actually seen a scapular, but I’ve worn a miraculous medal for a long time now. On one side it has Jesus Christ’s very detailed face as He might have looked after His scourging and while hanging on the cross. The words are in Latin, but I believe they say something along the lines of Christ in His most Human form. And then on the other side there is an equally detailed engraving of Mother Mary weeping, and those words depict a Mother’s Sorrow. It’s my favorite medal, and I wear everyday.
When my mother brought me back a red “Passion Scapular”, this medal you describe accompanied it. The front shows Jesus’ head and shoulders, as pictured after his Crowning with thorns, and has the words “Ecce Homo”, meaning “Behold the man” which is what Pontius Pilate said about Jesus to the crowd.I’ve never actually seen a scapular, but I’ve worn a miraculous medal for a long time now. On one side it has Jesus Christ’s very detailed face as He might have looked after His scourging and while hanging on the cross. The words are in Latin, but I believe they say something along the lines of Christ in His most Human form. And then on the other side there is an equally detailed engraving of Mother Mary weeping, and those words depict a Mother’s Sorrow. It’s my favorite medal, and I wear everyday.
[Some imperfections of spiritual avarice commonly found in beginners.]
- Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don’t find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged. Furthermore, they weigh themselves down with overdecorated images and rosaries. They now put these down, now take up others; at one moment they are exchanging, and at the next re-exchanging. Now they want this kind, now they want another. And they prefer one cross to another because of its elaborateness.Others you see who are decked out in agnusdeis and relics and lists of saints’ names, like children in trinkets. 1 What I condemn in this is possessiveness of heart and attachment to the number, workmanship, and overdecoration of these objects. For this attachment is contrary to poverty of spirit, which is intent only on the substance of the devotion, benefits by no more than what procures this sufficiently, and tires of all other multiplicity and elaborate ornamentation. Since true devotion comes from the heart and looks only to the truth and substance represented by spiritual objects, and since everything else is imperfect attachment and possessiveness, any appetite for these things must be uprooted if some degree of perfection is to be reached.
Yes, a Lay Carmelite. 12 years now and counting. I never take off my scapular unless it breaks. The reason is I have repeatedly been told not to wear it at work as it is considered a gang sign. I was finally given a choice- remove the scapular or leave the job. I found a new career. Now I have more reason to wear it than ever.Altho a Lay Carmelite, I wear the MM. I stopped wearing the Br. Scap. after years of **vicious entanglements ** upon waking in the morning but I wear my ceremonial Scapular at OCDS functions.
katekw - are you a Lay Carmelite, perchance?
Jenlilyn - how 'bout you?
I was in a California Teachers academy studying for my masters in Special Education. I wanted to do elementary work as that way I could avoid most of the state standards requiring teaching of homosexuality as a lifestyle, abortion rights, birth control, etc. Those types of classes do not begin until 3rd grade. However, as an intern I was repeatedly sent out into middle and high school and juvenile hall even though I had requested K-3. We were in a heavily gang infested area, this is true, much drive by shootings and so forth. We even had drive by shooting drills much like everyone else has fire drills. We had to stop drop and roll if drive by was suspected.A GANG SIGN??? - no way!!!
What, Carmelite Crips?
I’m not being flippant, just amazed. Could you tell us about it?
God bless you for your stand.
Ah, no wonder I liked you from the start! We are sisters in Carmel! I should have guessed. What name did you choose?Yes, a Lay Carmelite. 12 years now and counting. I never take off my scapular unless it breaks. The reason is I have repeatedly been told not to wear it at work as it is considered a gang sign. I was finally given a choice- remove the scapular or leave the job. I found a new career. Now I have more reason to wear it than ever.
Oh, well thank you. But my story is nothing. I find the experiences of the Vietnamese lay carmelites much more inspiring. They risked their lives to wear it and still do.That is the most inspiring scapular story I have ever heard.
Vicious morning entanglements or not, I resolve to wear one again along with my MM, through the courage of your testimony.
Yours in Our Lady’s Order,
Homeschooling Carmelite Dad
Yes I used to offer up all my entanglements as a way of penance, such fun, 20 minutes every morning trying to untangle all the chains and strings.That is the most inspiring scapular story I have ever heard.
Vicious morning entanglements or not, I resolve to wear one again along with my MM, through the courage of your testimony.
Yours in Our Lady’s Order,
Homeschooling Carmelite Dad