[sinkspur]

I, your resident Catholic liberal, have worn the scapular for 44 years, since I was 8.

I'm gonna wave that scapular on judgement day and hold Mary to the promises she made.

I'll be buried in it; the instructions are already in my will.

[fishtank]

"I'm gonna wave that scapular on judgement day and hold Mary to the promises she made."

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/y/myhopeis.htm

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

Refrain

On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

Refrain

His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.

Refrain

When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

Refrain

[Possenti]

I, your resident Catholic liberal, have worn the scapular for 44 years, since I was 8.

Wow. You really surprised me with that! Glad to hear it. My daughter, wife and I have worn ours for only months now, since our baptism on Holy Saturday this year.

Is it still worn by many modern (N.O.) Catholics? We're "traditional orcs".

[drstevej]

*** "Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire." ***

Statements like this are flabberghasting to this protestant.

***I'm gonna wave that scapular on judgement day and hold Mary to the promises she made. ***

Isn't faith in the death burial and ressurection of Jesus sufficient? What in the promises of Jesus are lacking?

If this is a valid promise, why does this not receive the same response of obedience that LDS have to wearing their temple garments?

Is holy tradition pick-and-choose?

-Pope Piel I (the pope who asks questions)