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The Wonders of the Brown Scapular
A Sermon Delivered by Fr. James McGilloway, CMRI
http://www.cmri.org/05-brownscap.html

[LurkLongley]

Why ridicule a belief that you don’t share? The belief in the Scapular obviously brought your relative comfort, how can that be a bad thing.

I know of some stranger things that I have seen in “evangelical” churches and they make the belief in the Scapular look pretty darn tame.

I still wear my First Communion Scapular. Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it.

[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.

[Quix]

THANKS FOR THE LINK.

[Quix]

“First of all, if a Catholic chooses to wear the Brown Scapular, day in and day out, it should be an outward sign of his or her trust in the Blessed Virgin Mary.”

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And still the idolatry is denied.

Sigh.