Wearing the Brown Scapular

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Recently I found a Pauline book store. I bought two Brown Scapulars form there; one is traditional cloth and the other is a cord with an image of Our Lady and an image of Our Lord connected. I read that in joining the confraternity of the Brown Scapular, one must take a vow of chastity to whatever one’s current marital state is. What should young people like myself do who are not ready to make such a commitment because they do not know if they will marry or not yet? Should they wait to wear the scapular? Also is it necessary to wear one scapular on your back and another on your chest?

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Recently I found a Pauline book store. I bought two Brown Scapulars form there; one is traditional cloth and the other is a cord with an image of Our Lady and an image of Our Lord connected. I read that in joining the confraternity of the Brown Scapular, one must take a vow of chastity to whatever one’s current marital state is. What should young people like myself do who are not ready to make such a commitment because they do not know if they will marry or not yet? Should they wait to wear the scapular? Also is it necessary to wear one scapular on your back and another on your chest?

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Hi,

the obligation is to live chastely according to your state of life… chastely means purely, it does not mean celibacy if you are married. So if you wear the brown scapular, that means you should be celibate before marriage, and then chaste within marriage - that means avoiding sexual sin within marriage (it does not mean always abstaining). It’s the same rules as for all Catholics 🙂 hope that makes sense…
 
So if one enrolls in the scapular as an unmarried person you can still marry later in life and remain consecrated?
 
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Recently I found a Pauline book store. I bought two Brown Scapulars form there; one is traditional cloth and the other is a cord with an image of Our Lady and an image of Our Lord connected. I read that in joining the confraternity of the Brown Scapular, one must take a vow of chastity to whatever one’s current marital state is. What should young people like myself do who are not ready to make such a commitment because they do not know if they will marry or not yet? Should they wait to wear the scapular? Also is it necessary to wear one scapular on your back and another on your chest?

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Advanced Christianity posts several lectures by John Haffert, founder of the Blue Army of Fatima (25 million signed members). I listened to them years ago, and I think they are the most wonderful audio concerning the Scapular.

AdvancedChristianity.com/Pages/Haffert/Haffert_005_Scalpular.htm

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So if one enrolls in the scapular as an unmarried person you can still marry later in life and remain consecrated?
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yes 🙂 it’s chastity according to your state of life, and if it changes, then of course the precise meaning of chastity changes too.
 
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