Posted on 05/09/2015 7:44:31 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Millions of sincere Catholics wear the brown scapular thinking by doing so it will help them spiritually. They believed the report that Mary made and is backing a salvation promise in connection with the brown scapular hundreds of years ago based on their religious traditions. Over the years wearing the brown scapular has been perpetuated by sincere Catholic leaders, such as the one in this video, but it is in complete futility that it is worn. It is a false hope and a spiritual snare. 
It is not based on God’s truth and is, therefore, just as deadly for the sincere Catholic as it is for the Hindu who bathes in the Ganges River thinking his sins will be washed away in the water or for the Muslim who kisses the black stone of Kaaba to be forgiven! [The picture to the right is Mel Gibson, the director of the Passion of Christ, wearing a brown scapular as he smokes.]
I too once wore the brown scapular as an Ex Roman Catholic. I know what it is like to be taught something and accept it as truth to find out later it is not only unscriptural, but anti-scriptural. It hurts, but TRUTH is what we must stand on to be safe. It takes humility in such cases to turn.
NOTE: At about 2:23 time-wise into the video, the speaker is quoted below. How could anyone deny that Mary is deified in Catholicism? Surely, this rampant idolatry is grieving to the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father. This is what Catholicism teaches about the brown scapular:
And so, wearing of the brown scapular reminds us, should remind us, of three things. First, that we are children of Mary. Second of all, that we need to work for our Lady. And finally, it should be a garment of humility and penance. First, by the brown scapular we profess ourselves to be children of Mary. The scapular of our Lady is a badge or a uniform so to speak by which we profess to whom we belong and who we serve. Likewise, our Lady in turn by wearing the brown scapular, she recognizes us as her children, as her special children. And because of that, she consequently protects us and watches over us. The brown scapular should also remind us that we need to work for our Lady because the scapular, which means shoulder garment, was originally that, it was a garment worn by religious in order to protect their habit, their religious habit that they wore on a daily basis during those periods of work to keep it from getting dirty, stained, from ripping, etc. and so therefore the scapular is a working garb. And so this should remind us that there’s no room for lazy piety. If we wear the brown scapular and we consider ourselves our Lady’s children, there’s no place for lazy piety but rather we should fill our lives with good works. This brown scapular should remind us the need to faithfully fulfill our daily duties, and to make another adaptation of Scripture, to labor as good soldiers of the Immaculate. Finally, the third place, the brown scapular is also a garment of humility and of penance. So in a spirit of penance, we should accept all the difficulties of our state of life and all the sufferings that our Lady may want to send us. And the scapular will give us the strength to do this. In all of our difficulties, we can always grab onto our brown scapular, remind ourselves of our Lady’s protection, her watchfulness, her presence and especially at the moment of death, when we can call to mind our Lady’s promise of salvation. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.
* Not a single word about Jesus was mentioned there.
* The brown scapular is 100% religious mythology and idolatry, as Mary is deified as a type of Savior.
* No Bible light shines from such brown scapular Catholic tradition.
Please address your specific concerns to the Religion Moderator, a person for which I’m very grateful and who is infinitely more knowledgeable and qualified than me to address specific religion issues.
So is "mind-reading," but in all the years I've been here I've yet to see a Protestant get dinged for "worshipping Mary" comments. Believe me, I've been here long enough to know which way the wind blows.
I responded to a direct post from you.
Or does someone have access to your rubber-stamp, maybe?
Showing respect for Mary. Wrong or right, just how I wanted to write it.
I hope they care what the word of God says ..I hope some might see the foolishness and superstitious practices that they are hoping will save them will fail
I hope to drive people to the word of God to seek truth of Christ..
It’s too easy to fire off short, snarky responses. If we had a delete button, I’d probably take back half of the ones I write. That’s one of the problems with instantaneous, non face-to-face communication. Sometimes the moment gets the better of you.
Ok, I’m done. Just ignore all I’ve said here. Thanks.
That’s the thing you don’t see, this is how we believe God has asked us to pray. Just because you don’t acknowledge it doesn’t make it false.
Peter tells us in Acts 4:11-12 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
What happens may depend on wording. In fact, the Religion Moderator profile uses this example in two places, both relevant here:
I will not decree what is or is not truth. The poster who claims "Catholics worship Mary" may believe with his whole heart that is the absolute truth whereas another poster with his whole heart may believe that very statement is an abominable lie. Both sides should argue those beliefs on "open" Religion Forum threads but never resort to ad hominems.
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For something to be "making it personal" it must be speaking to another Freeper, personally."Protestants are heretics" is not making it personal. "You are a heretic" is making it personal. "Catholics worship Mary" is not making it personal. "You worship Mary" is making it personal. "Mormons worship many gods" is not making it personal. "You worship many gods" is making it personal.
I see the logic in this distinction, though I also see the tension in practice.
It's very simple...I maintain there is something fundamentally wrong with a "rule" that allows me to claim "all Catholics are tax cheats," but gets "you're lying about Catholics" deleted.
When the FLaK is heaviest, you know you're over the target.
Hoss
I was wondering that too -- maybe reading minds? Or trying to "take a shot" (and looking mighty foolish, I might add...)?
Hoss
Evasive and non-responsive post.
Why did you go off on me? Why did I get your wrath? Show me!
Catholics shouldn't get all that worked up about being called *ignorant*. After all, they don't have much problem calling non-Catholics *ignorant*.
Does the term *invincibly ignorant* ring a bell?
Catholicism is like a tree trunk that has many branches of disagreement. If the trunk is defective, Christianity is a failure.
Capitalizing the pronouns is technically reserved for deity.
And they are capitalizing *she* for Mary?
And they claim they aren’t deifying her?
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