775 YEARS of the BROWN SCAPULAR!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary….

Thank you Mother Mary for the gift of the Brown Scapular to help us today and always in a world that is very challenging. We need your help and protection!

This article is mostly taken from a chapter titled Marian Life and the Scapular Devotion from the book...”Take This Scapular” written in 1949 in preparation for the 700 year anniversary of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, July 16, 1951. (If any of my readers knows of any...please post in the comments...thank you) Many Carmelite friars today do not believe St. Simon Stock even existed...and if that is a belief.... then…..how did Our Lady give St. Simon the Scapular in 1251. But there are good Carmelite friars (younger ones) who do believe in St. Simon Stock apparition ...one link below for you to listen to.

There are many miracles over the centuries and apparitions of our Lady dressed as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.  She held out the Scapular during the last apparition of Fatima. Sr. Lucia says that the Rosary and the Brown Scapular are inseparable. “But never mind ----(says one Third Order Carmelite member when I brought this to her attention years ago) ----FATIMA is a private revelation.” BUT IS IT? The miracle of the sun on October 13, 1917 was a public miracle even though only the three children saw the vision of Our Lady, Our Lord and St. Joseph at the time of that miracle of the sun! Some call it the message of our times. I truly believe that it is even though infiltrated Rome has done everything to silence it. This message of Fatima is still alive and will take us to the end to see the Reign of Her Immaculate Heart. It also solidifies our Catholic faith in so many ways….with belief in Heaven, Hell, angels, the Real Presence, Our Lady’s intercession….(did I leave something out)…..oh yes….that wars are allowed by God as a punishment for the sins of the world.

Now for the article found in this book written by Father Valentine L Boyle, O Carm….the following is condensed and paraphrased from his lengthy chapter (I wish I could post the chapter in its entirety.) Remember this was written in 1949 when the world knew what being Catholic truly meant………

“For most of us the day of our First Holy Communion was the day on which we received the Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. On that day of unbounded joy, we were united to Jesus Christ and to His Mother, Mary. Giving us the Host, the priest said: “May the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ protect your soul unto life everlasting.” (My COMMENT….Why did they delete this in the Novus Ordo Mass?)

When he later placed the Scapular over our shoulders, he said: “Receive this blessed Habit, praying the most holy Virgin, that by Her merits you may wear it without stain, and that She may guard you from ALL evil and bring you to life everlasting.” (My COMMENT: WOW – DO WE NEED THIS AGAIN)

It might be well to consider Carmel’s love for Mary even before the Scapular was given; to understand how that love was grafted into the spiritual life of the Church when Our Lady gave Carmel her Scapular, finally, how the Holy Scapular contains within it a call to imitate Our Lady in ALL things and so unite ourselves completely to Her so that She may bring us closer to Her Son Jesus.

Immediately after we were clothed in the Scapular, the priest said over us: “By the power granted to me, I admit you to the participation of all the spiritual good works, which through the gracious help of Jesus Christ are performed by the Religious of Mt. Carmel…. (MY COMMENT….since many of the Carmelite friars have wandered from the Faith….may we try to live as heroic Third Order or Lay Carmelites attentive to our prayer life and acts of reparation for the good of the Order)

Our Lady had glorious designs on Her Order. She had said to St. Cyril: “It is the Will of My Divine Son, and Mine also, that the family of Carmel be a light not to Syria and Palestine alone; its rays must illumine the whole world.” Through the persecution of the Saracens, Her Brothers were scattered and forced to flee to Europe. In the West, new trials brought down from Heaven Her Scapular with its great Promise.”

Centuries of Marian love were now unlocked so that all men might find life in Mary (and protection from the enemy). Carmel, like the well trained soldier without arms, had been given a weapon powerful enough to conquer the world for its Queen. Through the little Scapular a new Marian life was planted in the souls of men; the masterful Marian weapon continued in ever increasing numbers to conquer souls for Christ. (MY COMMENT….Wow! If I were Satan...I would do everything to get rid of this garment and why not infiltrate the Order to achieve this --- it worked in other Orders...and ROME)

The Scapular is so simple, so easily acquired, that the poorest could be clothed in Mary’s own garment. With the coming of the Scapular, so full of the goodness, love and protection of Our Lady, Carmel became the center of a new Marian life for the Church.

Fr. Bostius in the 1400’s wrote….”Behold your Mother, O venerable family of Carmel! If She is the Mother of all, She is, with greater title, particularly your Mother. Love Her then; venerate Her as though She were present everywhere; and beginning from this hour, consider her as your own Mother, so that She may one day share Her glory with you in Heaven.” The child must depend upon Mary for everything because it is a child. This idea was most beautifully lived in the life of St. Therese, the Little Flower, who tells us: “Mary is more Mother than Queen.” “No, I am not your servant but your child.”


End of passage from the book...my thoughts below…..


The Little Flower’s statements have been pulled and used by the modernists Carmelite friars to tell us that Mary is just a woman that we can live to try to imitate BUT that is where it ends ….. lessening (or doing away with) her role as Queen of Heaven and Earth and Mediatrix of All Graces. In their writings, we see the humanist approach as well as many modernists who only want to see the Human Nature of Christ and not the Divine. This is heresy. The evil one is a deceiver..the father of lies...who has tricked many who are vulnerable to believing ONLY in the humanist approach to our faith….and not the Divine. This is quite tragic and leads to a loss of faith.

If we practice all the instructions of Our Lady and hold Her hand as Her child during this life; and beg Her to lead us to Her Son in the most perfect way-- She will! She will guide us in every way if we choose Her for Our Mother and Queen. We can all understand that with the great devotion St. Therese’s family had to Our Lady; that what she was trying to say was that she feels safe and confident as a child of Mary. She fully understood that all help, grace and protection came from Her as it did for all of St. Therese’s life.

May we embrace Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s Scapular, kiss it daily and subject ourselves as the children of our good Queen and Mother…..May She guide us and lead us to Her Son until we are all there together with them for all eternity….our joy and our hope!

PRAY FOR THE CHURCH AND ALL CARMELITE RELIGIOUS!
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!
All ye Carmelite saints, pray for us!

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A Short Explanation from a Young Priest