What Do You Wear Around Your Neck?

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To be totally honest, I don’t wear anything around my neck. I do keep a rosary and a scapular in my pocket. I also have a St Mary and St Michael… things… I’m not sure what you’d call them. I am always annoyed by the physical feeling they give me when I where them (well, obviously not the rosary, you don’t wear that 😃 ). I just couldn’t get accustomed to wearing them. Hope that’s not a sin. I do keep them in my pocket, and reach in there to feel them whenever I need a reminder of God’s love.

This brings up an interesting point I’ve thought about : obviously these material things can serve as reminders for us, but do they do anything else? For example, if someone dies wearing a scapular, will God really look upon him differently than someone who believes the same thing, yet is not wearing one?
 
I wear a small finger rosary with a cross made with string and wood beads. I then have a thin leather strap that wraps around my neck. It was blessed by John Paul II and given to me by a good Priest friend.
 
I voted for crucifix but I also wear a miraculous medal and a brown scapular. 🙂
 
I wear the carmelite scapular and a dominican cross.
i love them both, eventhough when I first started wearing the scapular, I had to change the way I used to dress 🙂
now i just feel naked if i take one of them off.
 
Although I identify myself as Agnostic or “non-practicing Catholic,” I still wear crosses. I usually wear two of them (both from a place called "Spencers), I have another that I bought from Hot Topic (that is in the form of a dragon), and I sometimes wear a cross that has a red-eyed skull in the middle.

Yeah, I should have mentioned (unless you’ve figured it out already): I am a Goth.

I have never gone a day without wearing a cross around my neck.

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood
 
i wear a crucifix and a scapular medal and i keep a rosary in my pocket
 
At different times I wear a Celtic cross, a wooden Tau cross, Miraculous Medal and St Joseph medal (although he’s rather worn out, so I’ll have to get a replacement, poor dear).

Sometimes a Rosary at home. When out I pretty much always carry one (sometimes more than one).
 
I wear a miraculous medal everyday, and I alternate between a pewter San Damiano crucifix and a wood Tau cross (blessed) that’s actually a crucifix, too, because it is adorned with a corpus.

Peace.
 
Everyday I wear a blessed miraculous medal, st. benedict medal, and a brown scapular around my neck. I also wear a small rosary bracelet/ or carry it in my pocket daily.

I have a collection of other saint medals that I wear occasionaly. These include:
St. Martin de Porres
St. Joseph
Blessed Brother Andre
and Our Lady of Sorrows
 
Right now I have two St. Dymphna medals on the same chain. I used to also have a crucifix, but it came off the chain and I’ve never been able to find it… 😦 Occasionally I’ll wear a knotted cord rosary when I am wearing a skirt or something that doesn’t have pockets, but I wear it under my clothing, as I use it only for prayer, and don’t like wearing it at any other times.

God Bless!
Ericka
 
Under my clothes I wear a crucifix and a scapular medal. I’m allergic to wool so I’m so very glad to have learned a few years ago that it is approved to wear a scapular medal instead of the wool scapular.

I wear them both on the same 32 inch never-ending sterling silver chain at all times. That chain was never a bright one. It’s more of a dark gray, even when it was new. I got it for a buck at the local retreat house’s gift shop.

On that same chain with my crucifix and scapular medal I had worn a very small Miraculous Medal until the jump ring to my Miraculous Medal broke. That Miraculous Medal is in a small dish on the side of a counter. I realize that my scapular medal has ON it the Miraculous Medal image, so I don’t sweat it.

Sure, it kind of “ruins” the fashion look when I’m wearing a necklace because you can see that sterling silver never-ending chain also around the edges of my neck. But I don’t sweat that, either.
 
I wear a medal of Saint Benedict as well as a Saint Brendan medal (my name is Brendan)
 
Brown Scapular, and now a Benedictine crucifix (newly purchased). I have a St. Peter Nolasco medal that I could be wearing too, but I can’t get it on the same string as the crucifix though. So if I want to wear that too I need to use a thin thread, chain or something.
 
I don’t wear anything other than my shirt or tee shirt. I do have a miraculous medal in my wallet and a rosary in my pocket. I don’t like the feeling of having anything around my neck.
 
I wear a Saint Andrew’s medal since that’s the confirmation name I took and I keep a Rosary in my pocket so I’ve got something to hold onto during prayer, whatever I may be praying.

Prayerfully,
Stephen
 
I wear a scapular with Miraculous and St. Benedict medals sewn into them. I also wear a medal on a chain outside of my shirt, usually of Guadalupe or the Divine Mercy.
 
I voted that I wear a scapular, which I do, however it has a MM and St. Benedict Medal on it, along with a crucifix.
 
justinkolo said:
Brown Scapular, and now a Benedictine crucifix (newly purchased). I have a St. Peter Nolasco medal that I could be wearing too, but I can’t get it on the same string as the crucifix though. So if I want to wear that too I need to use a thin thread, chain or something.
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Justinkolo… you might want to take your crucifix with the string … as well as the St. Peter Nolasco medal… to a local jeweler. Get a chain to hang them all onto, if you need to. Ask the jeweler to figure a way to get your St. Peter Nolasco medal on the same string (or a chain) as your crucifix.

I did that with the crucifix, the scapular medal, and the Miraculous Medal that I had bought. I brought all three of them as well as my 32 inch never-ending chain to the jewelry store in a local mall. Asked them how they could get all three of these on this never-ending chain since the never-ending chain is just that… has no closure on it whatsoever.

The lady behind the counter pulled out a jump ring for my crucifix, my scapular medal, and my Miraculous Medal. Said to give her ten minutes and she’d get all 3 of them onto my never-ending chain. She had never seen a crucifix on a chain. Had no idea what a scapular was. Wasn’t even quite sure who the lady on the Miraculous Medal was.

But she was very, very interested in learning from me which way I wanted all three of those “charms” (which is what she called them) to face. Did I want them all to face the same way? Or alternate which direction they faced, lined up next to each other? She wanted to know which one to lay beside which of the other ones (in what order did I want them?).

I laid them out alongside each other on the glass counter. Gave her the chain. Told her to take her time. That I was shopping for other things in the mall and I’d be back in an hour, if that worked for her.

I came back in 90 minutes. She was very kind and actually proud that she had managed it, but tried to be humble. She was only about 19 years old.

She did a fantastic job. Didn’t charge me but $5 for each jump chain. She said she wanted to do it for me for free, but couldn’t because the manager requires that they charge for such things.

It’s a natural thing to ask a jewelry store to do. Just ask them their advice and counsel. If they don’t have any idea… just suggest that they attach your crufix and your saint medal each with their own “jump ring” to a common chain.

Worth a thought… 😉
 
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