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.
Would you say the same thing if people were facing Mecca five times a day to "improve their lives"??
I didn’t claim I was forced to do anything. I saw a thread about the brown scapular and I clicked it of my own free will.
Nor was I the least bit indignant. It doesn’t bother me all that much (as evidenced by my lack of history posting on these threads). It’s something I’ve come to expect from adherents of the man-made faiths.
“If someone can be talked out of their faith this easily it wasn’t much of a faith to begin with.”
Rationality has its limits, for sure. It is said you can’t be reasoned out of something you weren’t reasoned into. There’s some truth in that, but I’ve seen exceptions.
I applaud your post.
You will find it falls on either deaf ears or on those who would seek to justify themselves, though.
Catholics coined the phrase “invincible ignorance,” for a reason.
*duties*?
That’s what Catholicism is all about..
Doing your duty to try to merit enough grace to attain heaven.
What futility.
I notice that there’s no mention of Jesus in there, or if there was, it was so fleeting that it was easy to miss.
But who needs Jesus when we have Mary?
They’re *Mary’s children* not children of God.
She protects and watches over them. Who needs the Holy Spirit when you have Mary. (And whatever happened to asking Mary to pray FOR her, as in they are not asking her to do things for them. I’d say that her watching over them and protecting them is doing something....)
The *Lady’s promise of salvation*?????
Who needs Jesus?
Jesus who?
LOL, so wearing a brown scapular is the same thing as being a Muslim now?
Ponderous man, ponderous.
What truth?
Linking to a closed caucus thread?
Don’t waste the time or bandwidth.
If the thread is labeled caucus to keep outsiders out, then don’t post it to us to reference.
Don’t tell us you don’t want our input and then expect that we’ll go running to see what it says.
Then answer this question.
Can Mary save anyone?
In either case, it's a false god.
Of course not.
Otherwise, they would be sure of where they're going to end up instead of thinking they'll find out when they get there.
Can you imagine? Ooops, you're three acts of mercy short. Too bad for you.....
When mainline Prots start posting on these threads, let us know.....
Mary is a God?
If she’s the mother of a god, how can she not be a god herself? And Queen of Heaven, for goodness sake.
WE should have a private caucus room...
Oh! WAIT! We don't have anything to hide. In, fact: We are commanded to proclaim the Truth to the whole world.
I forgot.
< /sarc>
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