What Do You Wear Around Your Neck?

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I wear an Our Lady of Fatima medal. I bought it in Valenca, Portugal on 9/11/2001.
 
I said crucifix, but I should have said “other” probably…

I do not wear a scapular (yet), but I have a celtic-style crucifix, a Miraculous Medal from my visit to Rome, and a medal commerating the beatification of Blessed Mother Teresa (which is why I was in Rome :))

Needless to say, when I come clinking by, little kids love to reach up towards my neck! 🙂
 
I wear a medal with Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas & the unborn, of course.

Anyone who’s wearing their scapula around their necks - :bigyikes:OUCH! (I know it’s just a typo, but I couldn’t resist!)
 
I wear
  1. a brown scapular (cloth) as well as
  2. a scapular medal blessed and given to my by the priest who enrolled me,
  3. a miraculous medal (blessed) that I received when I enrolled in the MI,
  4. a Divine Mercy medal (blessed),
  5. a “relic medal” of St. Maximillian Kolbe, and
  6. a second miraculous medal sent to me from the Association of the Miraculous Medal for having enrolled my five grandchildren in the Association.
The medals are all on the same chain.

Talk about untangling things in the morning… :rolleyes:

John
 
I used to wear several medals. As I’ve been to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe twice I wore her medal, then added El Nino de Padua…then St. Michael, ordered by my mother when I graduated from college.

There’s a story here. When I graduated with my degree, and full intention of entering into law enforcement, my Mother ordered a traditional St. Michael medal. What she got was a St. Michael medal, specialized: it portrayed a police officer with St. Michael standing behind him with his hand on the officer’s shoulder. The medal was in the shape of a badge.

We both realized the “error” at the same moment, when she presented it to me. And indeed, as long as I worked in law enforcement, the most dangerous situations seemed to elude me…I was not called to go. And when confronted with danger or volatile situations, I did perservere. I wore that medal as long as I worked, and a part of me wants it back as I am in in a similar career now…but I gave it away after I left law enforcement. My best friend was marrying a man who was going into law enforcement…so I gave it to her for him. I dont’ know where the medal is now, but I pray that it has met with someone who has found the Miracle of salvation.

Anyway, now I wear a crucifix made of platinum that my non-religious ex-boyfriend purchased for me in the middle east when he was stationed there.

I also carry a St. Padre Pio medal as my family has ties to him, and the Virgin of Guadalupe medal is likewise carried with me.

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SHEMP:
I was wondering what people wear around their necks. I don’t wear anything. I still have trouble getting used to wearing my wedding ring. I was never one for jewelry. Lately however I have been thinking about getting a scapula.
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A wear a brown scapular. But, on the scapular twine…I have a crucifix, miraculous medal, lourdes relic, and st. benedict medal.

I wear the following version…

catholiccompany.com/product_detail.cfm?ID=3022

Many people (for instance, Mel Gibson) prefer…the following version…it’s slightly smaller…

catholiccompany.com/product_detail.cfm?ID=1156
 
Brown Cloth Scapular and Gold Crucifix – since I couldn’t pick both, I didn’t vote.
 
me, too: didn’t vote because I wear a scapular, crucifix and a miraculous medal…wouldn’t be without any of them!!!

Using sacramentals isn’t a lucky charm effect, but rather a reminder of who we belong to and what we’re aiming for…The promises come with them responsibilities… one won’t wear a scapular and not be drawn into a deepening prayer life and reliance on our Blessed Mother, for example.
 
Can’t you choose more than one? 😛

I wear a scapular, a crucifix (St. Benedict’s) and a miraculous medal, hehe :o :o
 
I wear a simple, flat pewter-colored metal crucifix that I got at a retreat in 1985. Jesus’ right hand has snapped off His arm and I’ve several times in the last 14 years shopped for another crucifix, but couldn’t bring myself to replacing that one because, after all, He’s still on it!

I also wear on the same chain (the chain was a whole $1.25 for 18 inches and out-lasts any “nicer” chain I’ve ever picked up in a department store):
  • the Divine Mercy medal (with the words “Jesus I trust in You” taking up the entire back of that medal, and the picture of the Divine Mercy Jesus on the front of it)
  • a little itty-bitty tiny :hmmm: Miraculous Medal – the one that on one side has a very deep turquoise-ey blue cover over the picture of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - the other side is flat silver with the etched graphic for MM and the stars.
I USED to have a Padre Pio medal, but it came off inadvertently and fell onto the ground… I never found it… since then, Padre Pio was canonized as St. Pio de Pietrelcina.

When I was a little girl, for a few months I did my best to wear that scratchy wool brown scapular… but it itched so much that I begged Mom to let me not wear it.

I still have it as an adult… folded and tucked away in the top dresser drawer.

I’ve pulled it out a few times in the last year, thinking I’ll wear it again… but now that I know that you have to be enrolled in the scapular, for some reason I’m hesitating to get enrolled in the scapular.

Maybe if I can wear the scapular as a medal, instead of the itchy wool patch that never seems to stay equidistant on the cord from my front side and my back side, then it would be practially wear-able.

Anybody have any suggestions for that?

Ah… never mind. I think I found my answer at:

ewtn.com/expert/answers/brown_scapular.htm

And this:

carmelnet.org/scapular/scapular.htm

And this:

ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/SCAPULAR.TXT

Oh. I chose “crucifix.” I wanted to choose more than one, but the poll didn’t accommodate a choice of more than one.
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Have no fear for what tomorrow may bring.
The same loving God who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day.
He will either shield you from suffering or 
give you unfailing strength to bear it.
Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations.
~~ St. Francis de Sales
 
I wear :

The medal Crucifix of St. Benedict (a Crucifix with the medal of Saint Benedict in it)
The Tau Cross
The 5 fold scapular
The green scapular
The scapular of Saint Michael
The scapular of the Pious Union of the Holy Spirit
The scapular of Benediction
The miraculous medal
And a sore neck. 😃

Yours in the Spirit

Pious 🙂
 
I wear :

The medal Crucifix of St. Benedict (a Crucifix with the medal of Saint Benedict in it)
The Tau Cross
The 5 fold scapular
The green scapular
The scapular of Saint Michael
The scapular of the Pious Union of the Holy Spirit
The scapular of Benediction
The miraculous medal
And a sore neck. 😃

Yours in the Spirit

Pious 🙂
 
Varies: Cross, black Passionist scapular, Miraculous medal or Our Lady of Guadalupe medal.

As for the scapular, I didn’t think you had to be enrolled but I did think you had to have it blessed. Anyone want to weigh in on this?

Nicole
 
I did vote, but I woud like to have been able to include BOTH my Miraculous Medal and my Scapular medal.

Peace,
Linda
 
Just one St. Elizabeth Ann Seton medal. It looks rather like a penny since it’s very old, it’s actually so old it still says ‘blessed’ not ‘saint’. But people do ask me about it often 🙂

I got a new one from DH when I was confirmed but shortly thereafter I met a woman in my pottery class who was given this medal when she was a girl in Catholic HS (slightly older lady) She dug around and found it for me, I promptly lost my ‘new’ one so now I wear her old one. Love it!
 
I wear, all on one chain:

Crucifix, Scapular medal, St. Benedict Medal, Miraculous medal

I also wear the Brown Scapular. Joe
 
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