[Legatus]

Before we get all worked up, CMRI is a sedevacantist organization. If you are unaware, that means they don't believe that Benedict XVI is the Pope. More to the point they're literally Protestants, they don't believe the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church anymore, they just waited a few hundred years to nail their articles to the church door.

If you avoid the heretics and schismatics and go directly to the Carmelites you'll find:
The Carmelite Scapular is not:

* a magical charm to protect you
* an automatic guarantee of salvation
* an excuse for not living up to the demands of the Christian life

It is a sign:

* which has been approved by the Church for over seven centuries;
* which stands for the decision to

o follow Jesus like Mary:
o be open to God and to his will
o be guided by faith, hope, and love
o to pray at all times
o to discover God present in all that happens around us.

I'm wearing mine right now and that's the way I've always understood it and had it explained to me.

[TSgt]

http://carmelitesofeldridge.org/scapular.html
The scapular finds its roots in the tradition of the Carmelite order, which has seen in it a sign of Mary's motherly protection. It has, therefore, a centuries' old spiritual meaning, approved by the church. It stands for a commitment to follow Jesus, like Mary, the perfect model of all the disciples of Christ. This commitment, in turn, finds its origin in baptism by which we become children of God. It leads us into a community of religious men and women, which has existed in the church for over eight centuries, and calls on us to live out the ideal of this religious family: intimate friendship with God in prayer. It also reminds us of the example of the saints of Carmel, with whom we establish close bonds as brothers and sisters to one another, and is an expression of our belief that we will meet God in eternal life, aided by the intercession and prayer of Mary.

It's all about Mary's intercession. False hope, unbiblical and an insult to Jesus's sacrifice.