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.
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If someone can be talked out of their faith this easily it wasn’t much of a faith to begin with.
And if someone out there thinks their version of Christianity is superior, well, I guess that will be for God to decide.
But I think he mostly cares that you love him and his Son and try to live by His Son’s teachings. He knows humans will always squabble over semantics. It’s their nature and he forgives us
Have a good one!!
This is really stunning....and sad.
What struck me was that nearly everything in that quote I have heard from pagan wiccans about the “goddess”
Difficult to read w/o feeling nauseous.
Those wearing the scapular become eligible for what is known as the sabbatine privilege. This is understood to mean that those wearing the scapular, reciting daily the Little Office of Our Lady (or the rosary, in the case of the Blue Army members), and observing chastity according to their state in life, will be released from Purgatory on the first Saturday after death (or whatever is the equivalent of the first Saturday in the next life). The privilege is believed to have been based on a bull said to have been issued by Pope John XXII on 3 March 1322 after receiving the favour in a vision of Our Lady .... From this it seems that the Church is willing to accept that such souls will be released from Purgatory soon after death, and especially on a Saturday. (Ibid., pp. 122,123)
I believe another pope later cancelled Mary's Sabbatine Privelege, but the mere fact that they believed this nonsense and to this day believe she can save you shows how far removed they are from The Gospel.
Millions of people wear the brown scapular thanks to this English mystic (Catholic Caucus)
https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/brown_scapular.htm
I missed that part about wearing this idol in the New Testament. Paul didn't write about it nor did Peter, James, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Jude, etc.
And catholics claim they don't worship Mary.
The perfect depiction in catholicism of who is the most important.
Mary is prominent....and oh, yeah, don't forget about Jesus.
Plus, the inscription in the idol is a lie...."Those who die wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."
So that's what is required for salvation in catholicism....????
What struck me was that nearly everything in that quote I have heard from pagan wiccans about the “goddess”
Our local “Mary Devotees” refuse to see it.
All we need is our King.
Every day is Kick a Catholic Day on FR. Now we’re being compared to Hindus and Islamists. It’s getting tiresome, but Catholics should expect a lot more of it, and worse, in the near future.
Catholic Need Not Apply
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