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Brown Scapular | Mark | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
Question: What are the requirements of the brown scapular? I've recently read conflicting things, like if you are invested and wear the scapular you also have to pray the rosary every day. But someone else said you have to pray the divine office every day. (If that's correct, just how much of the divine office is referred to there - ALL the hours, or as much as we can fit in our schedule, or...?) Someone else said the requirement is living a faithful Catholic life however you do it. Now I'm confused. Another brown scapular question - what is the requirement as far as the 2 pictures (the one over the front of the body and the one over the back)? I was just looking at a scapular I want to buy but realized it has a picture of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on the front and the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the back. I thought both the front and back pictures had to be related to Mt. Carmel, i.e. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Simon Stock or something. I just want to make sure before I buy it that it's made correctly. I don't want to wear the scapular and not do what it stands for, if you know what I mean... that'd be lying, wouldn't it? |
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Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM
Dear Mark: According to the Carmelite Order, who is the authority over the Brown Scapular, one who is invested in the Brown Scapular promises to live as "authentic Christians in line with the teaching of the Gospel, to receive the sacraments, to profess our special devotion to the Blessed Virgin, which should be expressed each day, at least by saying the Hail Mary three times." Those are the only requirements. In addition, the promises made are simple promises, which means that they do NOT bind in sin if one fails to fulfill the promises. On your scapular Our Lady of Mt. Carmel goes in the front. As to the meaning of the Brown Scapular I quote from the Carmelite website:
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