What hangs around your neck?

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Eduardo06sp said:
I mean, if you have the health “charm”, and if, only if you believe that this “charm” is going to give you good luck, that would be superstition, which is not allowed by the Church.
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I am fully aware of that.

I used the word “charm” in this sense:a small ornament worn on a bracelet or chain

Source: Merriam-Webster Online, definition 4
It is not a health “charm,” it is a small ornament with a medical symbol on one side and my blood type engraved on the other. Again, the point of wearing this ornament is to alert medical personnel in the event of an urgent situation that the type of blood coursing through my veins is found in a mere 5% of the global population. I do not know how anyone could read more into it than that. If I was unclear, I apologize.

Frankly, I thought that article was the least interesting thing on my chain. Too bad it seems to have overshadowed the far more significant items. 😦
 
UpUpAndAway said:
I am fully aware of that.
I used the word “charm” in this sense:
a small ornament worn on a bracelet or chain
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Alright, I was just trying to “warn” you. Sorry if it seemed as if I was assuming you were using the medical charm for good luck.​
 
I wear a brown scapular under my clothing, next to my heart. I wear a St. Benedict crucifix and a St. Joseph medal (given to me by my Confirmation sponsor, Joseph being my Confirmation saint) on a chain outside of my clothing. The chain is just at the right length so that, if I look down, I see the crucifix in the bottom corner of my eye and I’m reminded to turn my mind to the Lord 😃
 
I wear a Russian cross and a Russian icon pendant. The cross was given to me by my God Mother for my baptism/chrismation.

In Christ,

Helen
 
Brown scapular, Miraculous Medal, St. Michael medal, St. Christopher medal.
 
Brendan_64 said:
It’s just a simple cross one and a half inches tall (sorry that the picture has come out huge, I don’t know how to make it smaller on here).

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Here’s the history of it.

I made the wax mould to copy little wooden crosses that my wife and I bought on Mt St-Michel in France about 25 years ago, before we were married. I wasn’t a believer then (my wife was) but as we had popped into the chapel at the abbey there, and as we were leaving a little old French lady rushed up to me, clutched my hands and put a St Michael Archangel prayer into my hand, imploring me to take it. After that we went and bought a couple of little wooden crosses on strings. I used the wooden cross as a model, I made an exact copy of it out of bees wax, and got a silver-smith to cast it for me (using the lost-wax method).

When I came back home to the Church I made the wax model and had it cast and have worn it ever since.

The silver cross I wear around my neck, the original wooden cross hangs in my car, and the St Michael prayer card the old lady gave me lives in my wallet.

Even when I was far away from the Church, dabbling in all sorts of pagan beliefs, I had that St Michael prayer card in my wallet. Perhaps he helped keep me safe and helped guide me home?
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That is a beautiful story! 👍 You never know how you might affect someone’s life even with the smallest of actions. 🙂

I wear as 1.65 inch, Eastern Catholic, Russian Crucifix:
http://sphotos-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1170849_191930637644943_1707959353_n.jpg
 
PrayRosary said:
Im curious to know where your St Rose devotion comes from?
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I was living in Lima Peru and as you can imagine her image was everywhere. I was not religious at the time but came from a protestant background.

I started asking my Peruvian friends about her and was told stories of her deep sense of piety, even in the face of ridicule.

Turns out she is the patron saint of those ridiculed for their faith and for the resolution of family conflict…two things I call on for her intercesion regularily.

I now live in Mexico and was baptized and confirmed into the church this past Holy Saturday. And as things sometimes come full circle…an image of her was watching over me from the altar in the church where I finally became a catholic. So…that’s where my devotion to her comes from.

November of last year I went back to Lima for a visit and went to her home in the centre of Lima. They have a gift shop there where I bought my little medal. It feels nice to carry her around with me everyday.

God bless.

D.
 
Danielcpb said:
I was living in Lima Peru and as you can imagine her image was everywhere. I was not religious at the time but came from a protestant background.

I started asking my Peruvian friends about her and was told stories of her deep sense of piety, even in the face of ridicule.

Turns out she is the patron saint of those ridiculed for their faith and for the resolution of family conflict…two things I call on for her intercesion regularily.

I now live in Mexico and was baptized and confirmed into the church this past Holy Saturday. And as things sometimes come full circle…an image of her was watching over me from the altar in the church where I finally became a catholic. So…that’s where my devotion to her comes from.

November of last year I went back to Lima for a visit and went to her home in the centre of Lima. They have a gift shop there where I bought my little medal. It feels nice to carry her around with me everyday.

God bless.

D.
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Interesting story. St Rose of Lima is also de patron saint of South America if I recall correctly.
 
Danielcpb said:
I was living in Lima Peru and as you can imagine her image was everywhere. I was not religious at the time but came from a protestant background.

I started asking my Peruvian friends about her and was told stories of her deep sense of piety, even in the face of ridicule.

Turns out she is the patron saint of those ridiculed for their faith and for the resolution of family conflict…two things I call on for her intercesion regularily.

I now live in Mexico and was baptized and confirmed into the church this past Holy Saturday. And as things sometimes come full circle…an image of her was watching over me from the altar in the church where I finally became a catholic. So…that’s where my devotion to her comes from.

November of last year I went back to Lima for a visit and went to her home in the centre of Lima. They have a gift shop there where I bought my little medal. It feels nice to carry her around with me everyday.

God bless.

D.
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Very cool! Thank you for sharing!
 
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