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Offline CatholicinFL

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Brown Scapular replacement criteria
« on: September 17, 2013, 01:48:58 PM »
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  •  Whenever my scapular gets tangled and knotted from hasty repairs should I get a new one? Or should I wait until it is completely obliterated. What is your criteria for scapular replacement? Also do you take yours off during hard sweats like during a workout of during heavy labor. Well I still wear mine whenever I am wielding an axe or shovel or any other potentially dangerous tool or piece of machinery. I also find it wise to wear one while lifting weights, you never know when your grip will slip and you have upwards of 150 pounds on your windpipe.


    Offline TKGS

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    Brown Scapular replacement criteria
    « Reply #1 on: September 17, 2013, 03:23:11 PM »
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  • I never do those kinds of things without a shirt on, so I don't see a problem.

    Replace the scapular when it is worn out, using whatever criteria you have for other clothing items.  Some people wait until it is virtually falling apart.  Others replace it at its first fray.  There is no absolute standard on this.  The decision is up to the individual.


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    Brown Scapular replacement criteria
    « Reply #2 on: October 12, 2013, 08:41:18 AM »
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  • I wear mine until it's completely worn out.

    Offline Neil Obstat

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    « Reply #3 on: October 12, 2013, 09:16:41 AM »
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    The only 'rule' is you can't throw them away when they're worn
    out, but you should either bury them as if they were deceased,
    or burn them.  Some chapels have a collection jar where people
    put their worn out sacramentals, and the priest burns them all
    every so often.

    Then when you get a new brown scapular, you don't need to have
    it blessed, because you have been invested by a priest (that is,
    you should be invested so this works like this in the future).  
    After you're invested (the priest puts the scapular over your
    head and says some prayers), then from then on, all you have
    to do is put on a new, unblessed brown scapular and it becomes
    a blessed scapular because of the fact that you have put it on.
    This is part of the reason that a "scapular medal" doesn't have
    the same effect as a cloth scapular.


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