Wear a Scapular?

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I wear a brown scapular even though I’m not yet enrolled. I am in RCIA and joining the Church this Easter, so I have to wait until after confirmation.

I adjusted my scapular by sewing both parts together onto one side. This way it doesn’t flop around and get lost or choke me. So I wear it like a regular necklace, but under my shirt. It came with a St. Benedict medal and a crucifx, so I sewed the St. Benedict medal right inside between the two sides of the scapular. I didn’t like them hanging as they got in the way. The crucifix I left out since I wear a visible crucifix necklace anyway and it would have been kinda tight with the metal and crucifix both sewn in. Also I didn’t want them clanging.

Does anyone know, are these adjustments that I made ok? Will I still receive the same graces once enrolled?
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Smooser:
I experience a notable resistance to certain temptations or vices when I where one particular Scapular, and notice a very real difference when wearing others.:o Needless to say, it has become my favorite Scapular, but I wonder why there is this difference, and why this particular Scapular is more effective in giving me internal strength.
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Smooser, which scapular is it that when wearing it, God gives you the most graces?

Thanks to anyone who can help and God bless!
Lily628
 
I had a brown scapular that I got at my first Communion. I wore it a couple times as a kid but not after that.

Now that I’m less intimidated by peer pressure, how does one enroll in the sapular?

I can only imagine what my wife will say if I take off my shirt one night and she sees a scapular. When I came home with a Miraculous Medal she asked if I bought a rabbit’s foot too. :bigyikes:

Mike
 
I wore a scapular for a few years until my children were born, and they decided that it was great fun to pull on it. After I had about three break in a short period of time, I stopped wearing it. I just started wearing a miraculous medal again, and the kids are old enough that I could probably try the scapular again.

I do have a question though. When I was enrolled, I was told that the scapular must be brown, made of cloth and have a square in the front and back. I was told that a medal was not the same and couldn’t be used as a substitute for the cloth scapular. Was I misinformed?
 
OK…question here…

I was enrolled in the brown scapular when I received my first Communion, way back in 1963, and have to confess that I never wore the scapular after. Perhaps it was the fact that we were never really taught about the scapular, at least I don’t recall hearing anything about it. (I still recall my first Communion, and can remember posing for the group picture after…and the scapular enrollment. Hey, I even remember the cake that my parents had baked for the occasion with the plastic statue of Jesus giving Communion to a little boy on a kneeler on the cake top, but I digress.)

So, I am wondering, am I still enrolled even though after all these years, I never wore the scapular? Is it now simply a matter of having a scapular blessed (I have one that a friend gave me a few years ago, new and still in its little package), or should I re-enroll?

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks loads,

Joe
 
Joe,

I believe that you only need to enroll once. You shouldn’t have to re-enroll before wearing the scapular.
 
OK, this is my chance: I voted, “what the heck is a scapular?” I am hopeful that somebody can explain it to a 👋 nice Methodist girl.
I have asked any number of people, I never get anything that resembles an answer that I can understand, esp. now that from this thread, I seem to be reading that there is more than one kind???
So what are they, and should I be thinking about owning/wearing one, or what???
I see them on Catholic websites, butnobody ever explains what they are, what they are for, etc.Help!!
 
My scapular has a crusaders’ cross knit into the fabric. I am not looking for an devine grace by wearing it. Mine kind of iches due to the fact it is made of wool/cloth all real scapulars are made of wool. Everytime I notice I have it on, (everytime it itches me many times throughout the day) I consiciously think of Jesus and what He did for me on the cross.

The following are not my words but closely fit my understanding of the little brown scapular I wear:

"A scapular is a sleeveless outer garment falling from the shoulders. Use of the scapular originated in the monastic orders of priests and monks, forming part of the habit or clothing of the members. Essentially the scapular is a special garment worn as a sign of love and devotion to Mary the Immaculate Queen. With the passage of time lay people were permitted to wear the scapular as symbolic members of a monastic order, with the attendant spiritual benefits attached to such membership. Over the years the scapular, at least for lay people, became much reduced in size to but small pieces of wool cloth suspended front and back.
According to tradition the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Simon Stock in the year 1251, and, holding a scapular of the Order of Mount Carmel said, “Receive My beloved son, the Scapular of thy Order, as a distinctive sign of My Confraternity. Whoever dies invested with this Scapular shall be preserved from the eternal flames. It is a sign of salvation, a sure safeguard in danger, a pledge of peace and of My special protection until the end of the ages.”

By the end of the 16th century the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was most widely known and used. It is commonly called the Brown Scapular, and is probably the oldest scapular in use.

In the year 1322 Pope John XX11 issued a document known as the Sabbatine Privilege. This was the result of a vision he had of Our Blessed Mother holding the Scapular of Mount Carmel, in which she said, “Those who have been invested with this Holy Habit will be delivered from Purgatory the first Saturday after their death.” In it indulgences are granted to the members of the Carmelite Order and to its secular members."
 
space ghost:
no, comfort is my issue (excuse)… :o
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If the wool is why you aren’t wearing the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, you will be happy to learn that the scapular does not have to be made of wool. It can be made of any dark brown cloth. Mine is cotton, recycled from a worn out Carmelite habit.

And for lily, the way you are wearing the scapular is not correct. It should be worn with the two cloth pieces front and back, and no medals should be pinned to it, despite what Mel Gibson or anyone else might do 😉 . The scapular is the habit of the Carmelite Order, you see, so it should be worn as the Order prescribes.

Also, any priest or deacon may bless scapulars. Actually, the blessing is for the wearer, which is why when our scapulars wear out they can simply be replaced by putting on a new one. Old ones should be burned or buried.

Btw, I am a Lay Carmelite, which is why I have the inside scope on on the scapular. 😃
 
Can you take it off for the shower (worried about it getting scheevey?)… also Im a soldier and might have to go to iraq, does it also have to be around my neck. (same concern, a million degrees outside and I dont want it to get filthy.) Is it acceptable to have it in my breast pocket (along with my most holy rosary)?
 
you can definitely take it off in the shower (it’ll rot pretty quickly if you don’t), but I think it has to be worn around the neck unless there is a very good reason.

Could someone tell me at what point does a scapular ‘wear out’? My one has lost all the writing and 90% of the images on it but apart from that its still whole. Is it ok to still wear the one i’ve got?

(btw ex-paratrooper here 😉 )
 
I’ve been wearing one for about a year now. I take it off only when I shower. I got this one from O.L of Mt Carmel and it came with two medals attached to it.

seems to be a lot of confusion about them.:confused:

Good question for my Parish Priest…
 
I wear The Green Scapular. It has a picture of our Lady on one side and Her Immaculate Heart on the other. It is worn for healing and conversion. I were it for my family who are fallen away from the faith and for myself because we all need to deepen our conversion.

** Immaculate heart of Mary pray for us now and at the hour of our death, Amen (Prayer on the Green Scapular)**
 
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wOoKiE:
You can definitely take it off in the shower (it’ll rot pretty quickly if you don’t), but I think it has to be worn around the neck unless there is a very good reason.

Could someone tell me at what point does a scapular ‘wear out’? My one has lost all the writing and 90% of the images on it but apart from that its still whole. Is it ok to still wear the one i’ve got?

(btw ex-paratrooper here 😉 )
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It is worn out when it is impossible to wear it any longer. i had my first one for years and it snapped but I knotted it again and again…then the time came when it was just impossible to wear it. At that stage a new one was needed.
 
I wear my scapular in my sleep but take it off in the shower. Does anyone wear their scapular in the shower or go swimming with it and if so, doesn’t this make it soggy and uncomfortable to wear?
 
Who here that wears the scapular has actually been invested/enrolled in the scapular by a priest? (I have)
 
Dear All

I wear medal in my chain, but if I had the opportunity I would probably wear a Scaplular in the future.

God Bless
Saint Andrew.
 
I wanted to get enrolled in the brown scapular, but my priest couldn’t because he didn’t have the proper prayers for enrollment; he advised me to contact the Carmelite order here, but sigh…
 
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