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What Is The Brown Scapular
Eternal Life Blog ^ | August 29,2014 | Eternal life

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. wearing brown scapularIt 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:

Brown Scapular Catholic Propaganda

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.



TOPICS: Apologetics; Evangelical Christian; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: deception; idolatry; superstition; tradition
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To: ex-snook
Catholics started Christianity. Those who follow truth come home to Rome. Those who look for specks in other people’s faith are just wasting their time.

So why do RCs on FR RF waste their time with those of us on FR who are not ever going to become members of the Roman Catholic church (again)? Where's the compassion for us wayward souls? Why the continual berating and arrogant put-downs by RCs toward those you call protestants?
181 posted on 05/09/2015 1:24:16 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
That you do not believe Mary was the Immaculate Conception is where the problem arises.........I think. If you did believe She was the Immaculate Conception, would you then capitalize Her name, remembering this is the MOST important birth the world has ever known, regardless.

That doesn't matter. Catholics and Catholicism STILL use it to describe others.

If they can dish it out, they ought to be able to take it.

Catholics being offended, or taking offense, when someone uses a word that they have no qualms about using for others, is a double standard, aka, hypocrisy.

182 posted on 05/09/2015 1:27:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ex-snook
Catholics started Christianity.

Sure. Who needs Jesus or the Holy Spirit anyway?

183 posted on 05/09/2015 1:27:53 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Resettozero; Religion Moderator
So, you’re going to come on this forum like you own it, lay down your own personal forum rules, make accusations against a specific poster, offer NO evidence of wrongdoing on any poster other than yourself, evade direct requests for naming the accused slander that another poster has committed against Rome, chew out the site operator, and then snark off with “Thanks so much for the clarification”. Huh!

Well?

184 posted on 05/09/2015 1:28:08 PM PDT by papertyger (Gun fighting is the American martial art.)
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To: Resettozero
Capitalization of the word "She" denotes attribution of deity to Mary the mother of Jesus! That's just wrong!

They do not even realize they do it, it is so ingrained

185 posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:09 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: papertyger

Please...

...stop digging...

...please.

R2z


186 posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:19 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: metmom

Not by me, it wasn’t. And looking at the post (#44, actually), the term was misused. It applies to people who have not been exposed to God’s Word, through no fault of their own (most commonly with regards to infants).


187 posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:42 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: HossB86

Amen


188 posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:49 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: papertyger; mlizzy

Your concerns are noted.

If you read the RF often, you will see that the same concerns are valid for just about every faith represented here.

As for a reply posted to a particular member that is personal, the guidelines prohibit that because those types of posts tend to start flame wars that distract from the issues germane to the threads.

The guidelines have been posted to you about open threads. If you do not wish to follow them do not post to them.

It is the policy of the Religion Moderator to moderate in a non partisan manner.


189 posted on 05/09/2015 1:34:11 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: Resettozero

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.


190 posted on 05/09/2015 1:36:34 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: mlizzy; metmom
That you do not believe Mary was the Immaculate Conception is where the problem arises.........I think. If you did believe She was the Immaculate Conception, would you then capitalize Her name, remembering this is the MOST important birth the world has ever known, regardless.

And there it is..out in the open.. she was born without sin, she lived a life without sin ..when she died her body was taken into heaven .... she is a god..

BTW who did Jesus think was the most important person born of women??....UMMMMM not Mary .... Mat 11:11 Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John

191 posted on 05/09/2015 1:39:22 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
They do not even realize they do it, it is so ingrained.

The prime reason I bring things like this capitalization of "She" into the light on FR is because of the pompous and arrogant LOUD presumption that this particular hokey witchcrafty cult (largest, but only one of many) is the one true Christian church and that there is NOT ANOTHER Church that Jesus Christ founded on Himself and on the Father's revelation to Peter (and all Christians) of Who Jesus really is!
192 posted on 05/09/2015 1:39:23 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid
That’s the thing you don’t see, this is how we believe God has asked us to pray.

How has God revealed this to you ??

193 posted on 05/09/2015 1:41:21 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Religion Moderator
If you read the RF often, you will see that the same concerns are valid for just about every faith represented here.

Yet post #170 is still there, and mine was deleted.

194 posted on 05/09/2015 1:42:25 PM PDT by papertyger (Gun fighting is the American martial art.)
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To: Religion Moderator

Noted.

My points have been made. So have the site operator’s. Delete what posts of mine you wish.

R2z


195 posted on 05/09/2015 1:45:11 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: All

**”The demeanor of the poster says more about his own confession than the post says about yours. When he is being rude or mean it drives people away from his confession and towards yours. That is of course if you can resist the urge to meet fire with fire, in which case neither confession is appealing to the lurkers. The poster who ‘turns the other cheek’ wins every single time.” **

BTTT!


196 posted on 05/09/2015 1:47:24 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: papertyger

As you have stated you do not wish to read the guidelines for posting on open threads, please leave the thread and do not post on open threads.

Thank you.


197 posted on 05/09/2015 1:48:26 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: metmom

I’m not sure what you’re referring to. The quoted text isn’t mine.

If this is still about “invincible ignorance”, again, anyone using it as a pejorative hasn’t read Aquinas.

No one here is invincibly ignorant. The means to salvation are available to each and every one of us. For a little while longer, anyway.


198 posted on 05/09/2015 1:49:37 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: RnMomof7
And there it is..out in the open.. she was born without sin, she lived a life without sin ..when she died her body was taken into heaven .... she is a god..

"She is a god" is not the Catholic belief and you should know that, right? Weren't you Catholic at one point in time?
199 posted on 05/09/2015 1:49:47 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Tell your troubles to Jesus," my wisecracking father used to say, and now I do.......at adoration.)
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To: metmom
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?

I'm not Catholic and don't presume to speak there, but here I can think of a distinction, even without invoking anything specifically Catholic-related.

"Ignorant" and related words can be used neutrally or "negatively." (I suppose that in some cases it may even be used "positively," though I've never seen such a use. But as I've seen similar things, like "I'm proud to say that I've never watched [insert name of TV show here] and have no idea what you're talking about," I would be amazed if someone else has seen an example.)

A phrasing like "you are ignorant of this"--at least in my experience--is almost invariably negative, since there's usually the implication that the ignorance marks a failing in the intellect or goodness of the accused, such as "if you were smarter, you would not be ignorant about this" or "if you were a better person, you would've made sure that you were informed about this." In fact, if anything, in this regard "invincible ignorance" is somewhat of an opposite, since it seems to refer to ignorance that comes without such a failing.

(I also notice that the Religion Moderator profile says, "When in doubt, avoid the use of the pronoun 'you' and Freeper's names - or put yourself in the other guy's shoes." I'm reminded of the fairly common advice to avoid "'you' language" in certain cases. I've found this advice to be useful.)

Also: be careful of using such reasoning as I quoted at the top (we recently had a "Word for the Day" post about "tuo quoque"). Someone who's read enough of the Religion Forum--or even just this thread--can easily turn it against Protestants and others.

200 posted on 05/09/2015 1:55:21 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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