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To: metmom; Judith Anne
Holy water, scapulars, water from Lourdes,....

Do you know if you die wearing a scapula you go right to heaven, do not stop at purgatory..just go right to Peter..

93 posted on 02/02/2011 8:44:08 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
Do you know if you die wearing a scapula you go right to heaven, do not stop at purgatory..just go right to Peter...

This is a common misunderstanding.

the Church has blessed the appearance of Mary to St. Simon Stock, an early Carmelite, in which she is said to have promised that anyone who remains faithful to the Carmelite vocation until death will be granted the grace of final perseverance. This grace, it must be reminded, does not come from the scapular or any other sacramental; all grace is obtained for us by the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord. The sacraments mediate this saving grace; sacramentals do not mediate grace but prepare us to receive grace and to cooperate with it. Favors associated with the wearing of the Brown Scapular would be meaningless without the wearer living and dying in a state of grace.

A Brief Catechism on the Brown Scapular


98 posted on 02/02/2011 9:01:56 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: RnMomof7

Anyone who knew no better than that about scapulars would certainly not be considered a competent religion teacher in any Catholic parish. That is superstition, a sin.


151 posted on 02/02/2011 11:36:49 AM PST by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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